Meaning & use
Slade
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An archaic or dialectal English word for a small valley or open glade, especially a grassy one.
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The path wound down through a quiet slade before reaching the stream.
Old maps of the region mark several small slades between the hills.
A note on using this word
Largely obsolete in everyday speech today, the word survives mainly in English place names and older literature.
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