Glade vs Hollow - What's the difference?

In colloquial terms the difference between glade and hollow

is that glade is an everglade while hollow is completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

As nouns the difference between glade and hollow

is that glade is an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest while hollow is a small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.

As an adjective hollow is

(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.

As an adverb hollow is

completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

As a verb hollow is

to make a hole in something; to excavate.

As an interjection hollow is

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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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hollow

English

Alternative forms

* holler

Etymology 1

(etyl) holw, holh, from (etyl) . More at cave.

Adjective

(er)

(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.

a hollow''' tree; a '''hollow sphere

(of a sound) Distant]], eerie; echoing, [[reverberate, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.

a hollow moan

(Dryden)

(figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.

a hollow victory

(figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.

a hollow promise

Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.

* Shakespeare

With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.

Derived terms

* hollow leg

Adverb

(-)

(colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

Etymology 2

(etyl) holow, earlier holgh, from (etyl) . See above.

Noun

(en noun)

A small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.

* Prior

Forests grew upon the barren hollows .

* Tennyson

I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.

He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.

A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.

the hollow of the hand or of a tree

(US) A sunken area.

(figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.

a hollow in the pit of one's stomach

Verb

(en verb)

to make a hole in something; to excavate (transitive)

Etymology 3

Compare holler.

Verb

(en verb)

To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.

* Sir Walter Scott

He has hollowed the hounds.

Interjection

(en interjection)

(Webster 1913)