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slade¹

  • /sleɪd/ UK

Sounds like slayed, slaid, sleid · Rhymes with -eɪd

Where it comes from

From Middle English slade (“low-lying ground, a valley; a flat grassy area, glade; hollows of clouds; a creek, stream; a channel”), from Old English slæd (“valley, glade”), from Proto-West Germanic *slad, from Proto-Germanic *sladą (“glen, valley”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sladaną (“to glide, slip”) or Proto-Germanic *sladdaz (“to be slack, droop”). Compare Old Norse slóð (“track, trail”).

noun slades

  1. archaic, dialectal A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade. Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys.
  2. dialectal A hillside.

slade²

  • /sleɪd/ UK

Sounds like slayed, slaid, sleid · Rhymes with -eɪd

Where it comes from

Unknown.

noun slades

  1. A spade for digging peat.
  2. obsolete The sole of a plough. The Bishop, wearing a gleaming cape of green and gold, raised his hand over the plough and the kneeling farmers: "God speed the plough: the beam and the mouldboard, the slade and the sidecap, the share and the coulters[…]in fair weather and foul, in success and disappointment, in rain and wind, or i

Slade³

  • /sleɪd/

proper noun Slades

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.
  2. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Powell County, Kentucky, United States.
  3. countable, uncountable A coastal village and townland on the Hook Peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland (Irish grid ref X 7498).
  4. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Haverfordwest community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9416).
  5. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Penrice community, City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS4885).
  6. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Sheldon parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST1108).
  7. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Otterden parish, Maidstone district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9354).

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: slack, laund, slue, slitch, slopeland, sole, sloo, slat, slake, slean, swale, slobland, slab, slough, slew, sward

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@misc{slade_2026,
  title = {slade},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/slade},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}