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Glade vs Gladen - What's the difference?

glade | gladen |

As nouns the difference between glade and gladen

is that glade is an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest while gladen is sword grass.

As a verb gladen is

obsolete form of gladden.

glade

English

(wikipedia 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: A Writing Exercise
  • (obsolete) a gleam of light; see moonglade
  • (obsolete) a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "glade")

    Derived terms

    * moonglade * sunglade

    References

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    gladen

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) glaedene from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * gladdon * glader * gladwyn

    Noun

    (-)
  • Sword grass.
  • Any plant with sword-shaped leaves, especially .
    • (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 14th c', unknown translator, '''', transcription in '''1836 , Adam Clarke (editor), ''The Holy Bible: With a Commentary and Critical Notes , Volume 2, page 506,
    • We schul ful out joyen and gladen in thee, myndful of the tetis upon wyn, rigtmen loven thee.
  • * , 2004, page 67,
    • And to Pandare he held up bothe his hondes, / And seyde, 'Lord, al thyne be that I have, For I am hool, al brosten been my bondes: / A thousand Troians who so that me yave, / Eche after other, god so wis me save, / Ne mighte me so gladen ; lo myn herte, / It spredeth so for loye, it wol to-sterte!
  • * 1863', Jason Ham, ''Sanitary Report from Louisville, Ky'', '''1865 , ''Documentary Journal of the General Assembly of the State Indiana , page 166,
    • This is a pleasant part of my duty, it gladens my heart to be able to bestow upon the afflicted boys some of the comforts of home and former days.