Glade vs Dell - What's the difference?
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As a noun glade is an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. As a proper noun dell is .
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
glade Noun
( en noun)
An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
* 2003 , Newsweek, Travel: 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.
* 1851 ,
- [...] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
(colloquial) An everglade.
an open space in the ice on a river or lake
a bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice
- 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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(obsolete) a gleam of light; see moonglade
(obsolete) a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds
Derived terms
* moonglade
* sunglade
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dell English
Noun
( en noun)
valley
* 1794, , lines 49-50
- To this day they dwell
- In a lonely dell .
* Tickell
- In dells and dales, concealed from human sight.
(obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
* Ben Jonson
- Sweet doxies and dells .
Synonyms
* dale
* dingle
* vale
* valley
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