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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glades
  1. meadows
  2. pastures
  3. grasslands
  4. moors
  5. clearings
Noun
  • The Sea Ranch Lodge is just a small part of the much larger 7,000-acre Sea Ranch community, which has grown to encompass 2,224 homes clustered around a series of sunny meadows surrounded by stands of wind-breaking cypress.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026
  • At a museum preview event, Mia Lehrer, president of Studio-MLA, the landscape architect firm behind the gardens, described looking to California’s mountains, meadows, foothills and valleys for inspiration.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of meadows
Noun
  • Faulkner said he is fed up with Citation’s yearslong pattern of degrading his pastures.
    — Nick Bowlin, ProPublica, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The movement between seasonal pastures is called transhumance.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of pastures
Noun
  • 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
  • Shorebirds feed at the lochs’ edges, and upland raptors soar over the moors.
    — Alexandra Marvar, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Everything about this verdant, bucolic space is antithetical to the fog, fire, and wide-open, sprawling moors that have so far dominated the movie.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026
Definition of moors
Noun
  • 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
Definition of clearings

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