Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. · An everglade. · An opening in the ice on a river or lake. · A bright surface of ice or snow.
From Middle English glade, glode, glede (“a gleam of light, bright space, an open space; an open or cleared space in a forest; a bright patch of sky; a bright surface of snow or ice”), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old English *glǣd, *glād, related to Old English glæd (“shining, bright”), (compare Old Norse glaðr (“bright”)).
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