glades

plural of glade

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Recent Examples of glades The mountain also offers a wide variety of glades, giving skiers a natural and playful ride through the forest. Outside, 4 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 High quality glades without too far of a hike can be found on Plattekill Mountain, which has expert trails and a laidback, community atmosphere just three hours from the city. Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 23 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 The renowned adventure travel outfitter Eleven runs two exclusive lodges in the former mining town of Crested Butte (Scarp Ridge Lodge and Sopris House) and offers such adventures as fat-tire biking on groomed trails and snowshoeing through aspen glades. Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025 Meanwhile, one professional hunter leads the charge to undermine the competition, questioning what hides beneath the python mania gripping the ‘glades. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025 As of the end of February, the mountain was 100% with open with all 99 trails and each of the 670 acres meaning all the glades are open too. Roger Sands, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025 Backcountry skiers, who had flocked to Bolton for the beloved glades that surround it, learned in 2011 that the heart of the backcountry trail network was going to be sold. David Goodman, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glades
Noun
  • For your best chance at witnessing this bucket list wildlife moment, head to the meadows of Morain Park around sunset or sunrise.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The 11-mile one-way loop leads you through a valley speckled with historic buildings, trailheads, scenic picnic spots, and grassy meadows that offer wildlife sightings right outside the car window.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The lower pastures, complete with creek access, have housed cattle, while horses can graze freely in the upper fields.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Once used by shepherds to call cows from the pastures, the long, conical instruments are now used in folk music, brought out for celebrations.
    Lucy Kehoe, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • According to the zoo, patas monkeys are charismatic and can travel up to 34 miles per hour across their natural habitat, the arid grasslands of Africa.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
  • As the evening concluded, C·one announced plans to create a new AI film about his hometown region grasslands, while exploring how to better integrate AI with traditional storytelling techniques.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His work is often set in some fantastical Old World locale, a fantasy of manor homes on the moors filled with antiques and rare books, an Anglophile and Francophile’s fantasy of Europe.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
  • To find the killer, Sherlock Holmes and Watson will have to brave desolate moors before a family curse dooms the newest heirs.
    Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Data is also collected from the El Cajon Homeless Task Force, as well as from park staff as clearings are completed.
    Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There arc few, if any, clearings, old apple trees, and old stone walls.
    Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Glades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glades. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.

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