Thesaurus results for GLADES

glades

noun

plural of glade

as in meadows

a grassy open space in a forest

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Recent Examples of glades The terrain favors glades and varied pitches, and the compact base keeps logistics simple. — Caroline Tell, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026 On the one hand, winter brings fresh powder, steep descents, and the chance to traverse beautiful glades. — Graham Averill, Outside, 16 Jan. 2026 The mountain doesn’t let any of that powder go to waste, keeping a lax in-bounds policy that allows skiers of any and all levels to find their perfect glades. — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2026 Today, Vail is one of the country’s largest ski areas, with more than 5,300 acres and dozens of lifts that spread snow-chasers across front-side cruisers and glades, and to the kind of back-bowl skiing that people plan whole trips around. — Bailey Berg, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Dec. 2025 Visitors can ski on open runs, glades, cliffs and chutes, with the longest runs and most vertical drop in the Midwest, a good challenge for experienced skiers. — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 3 Dec. 2025 The terrain offers a little of everything—long groomers, steep, off-piste glades, and even 20km of Nordic skiing if that’s more your speed. — Francesca Krempa, StyleCaster, 17 Nov. 2025 The Deep Temerity area, serviced by a dedicated chairlift, holds a network of vertigo-inducing steeps, glades, and narrow chutes. — Charles Curkin, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025 Pygmy rattlesnakes are found near water and sometimes in rocky uplands, pine woods and glades, according to the TWRA. — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025

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Also near the town of Orick, Bald Hills Road runs a little over 30 miles from east to west, passing expansive meadows and historic ranches along the way.

— Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 12 Nov. 2026
Offering over 30 miles of trails throughout the Howard Buford Recreation Center, Mount Pigsah features a 1,518-foot peak surrounded by more than 2,200 acres of oak savanna, meadows, riverside habitat and wooded slopes.

— Austin Perry, FOXNews.com, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of meadows

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But by then, Montenegro had already resolved their story’s central conflict — scrapping the government’s plan to turn these people’s ancestral pastures into a military training ground after joining NATO in 2017.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2026
Her father, a Vietnam Marine, helped build its roads, fences, and pastures.

— Brian Unger, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of pastures

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Every facet of India’s topography, from lush grasslands filled with antelopes to gnarled forests with tigers and evil spirits lurking around every corner, is on full display.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2026
Chiricahua is a combination of climates The new national park features varying environments, from a desert landscape and grasslands to deciduous forest and chaparral shrub land to coniferous forest habitats.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of grasslands

Noun

Teresa as a character, this image of troubled woman walking around moors with wind in her hair and in her black dress, was really strong in my head for many years.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2026
Shorebirds feed at the lochs’ edges, and upland raptors soar over the moors.

— Alexandra Marvar, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of moors

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Beat writing—its jumpy jazz rhythms light and alliterative, so unlike Faulkner’s sonorous throat clearings—did not jive with McCarthy’s other influences.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
The path was lined with stone steps and gorgeous clearings overlooking the water.

— ElleAnna Revell, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026

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