Bayou vs Glade - What's the difference?
bayou | glade |
A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
A swamp, a marshy (stagnant) body of water.
An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
* 2003 , Newsweek, Travel:
* 1851 ,
(colloquial) An everglade.
an open space in the ice on a river or lake
a bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice
(obsolete) a gleam of light; see moonglade
(obsolete) a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds
As nouns the difference between bayou and glade
is that bayou is a slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river while glade is an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.bayou
English
(wikipedia bayou)Alternative forms
* byoNoun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Used almost exclusively to refer to bodies of water in Louisiana and the adjoining areas, including southern Mississippi, eastern Texas, and Arkansas.Anagrams
* ----glade
English
(wikipedia glade)Noun
(en noun)In The Trees, Nov 23, 2003
- ... are creating more "glades ," or cleared trails through the woods, for less experienced (blue) skiers. They're a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and machines rolled and packed the snow.
- [...] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
- In the latter days of a ferocious winter, the sun dropped earthwards, having on this day pulled clear of its sluggish trajectory casting a few meek rays on the redoubtable snow and frost of the mountain glade . — Vignette:
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