• Sunglade

    Origin

    From en + sun + glade

    Full definition of sunglade

    Noun

    sunglade

    (plural sunglades)
    1. A glade in a forest with a lot of sunshine coming in.
    2. An area of sunlight on a body of water.
      • 1874, Jane Goodwin Austin, Moonfolk: A True Account of the Home of the Fairy Tales (page 14)... sometimes, also, the rising or setting sun produces a sunglade, like a river of molten gold, or rather of pure fire, flowing across the ocean toward the earth ...
      • 1913, Advance (volume 98, page 232)Moonglade and sunglade on ocean or lake have a haunting and suggestive beauty. The reflected lane of light supplies what the mind craves in a picture—a path that seems to lead to some place of unknown and longed-for happiness ...
    3. A sunbeam.

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