glade

The Chronicles of Narniaを読んでいます。 "glade" が続けて３度下記の文中に出て来ました。これは覚えなくてはいけない単語ですね。
・Coming suddenly round a corner into a glade of silver birch trees Edmund saw the ground covered in all directions with little yellow flowers - celandines.
・The sky became bluer and bluer, and now there were white clouds hurrying across it from time to time. In the wide glades there were primroses.
・They walked on in silence drinking it all in, passing through patches of warm sunlight into cool, green thickets and out again into wide mossy glades where tall elms raised the leafy roof far overhead, and then into dense masses of flowering currant and among hawthorn bushes where the sweet smell was almost overpowering.
森の中を移動している場面ですが、木もありますが、草花や苔もある様な場所の様です。辞書で意味を確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: an open space in a wood or forest: a forest glade: glades of birch
・Wiktionary: An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. ?
・Wiktionary: an open space in a forest. The resort's centerpiece is an open-air slate hot tub overlooking the ocean, situated in a glade surrounded by trees.
子供が知っている単語なので知らないと恥ずかしい。