Definition of Slade

1. n. A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground.

Definition of Slade

1. Proper noun. (surname) ¹

2. Noun. (context: now rare or dialectal) A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete) The sole of a plough. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slade

1. a little valley [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slade

slackerdom
slackerish
slackerly
slackers
slackest
slacking
slackline
slacklining
slackly
slackness
slacknesses
slacks
slacktivism
sladang
sladangs
slade
slades
slae
slaes
slaframine
slaframine toxicosis
slag code
slag heap
slag heaps
slag off
slagged
slaggier
slaggiest
slagginess

Literary usage of Slade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"Proceeding by JO Slade and others against HA Smith, guardian, and others. ... Mrs. Emily Harty Slade, the wife of JZ Slade, was likewise the mother and ..."

2. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"So Slade said it was a pity to waste life on so small a matter, and proposed that the pistols be thrown on the ground and the quarrel settled by a ..."

3. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"CHAPTER X REALLY and truly, two-thirds of the talk of drivers and conductors had been about this man Slade, ever since the day before we reached Julesburg. ..."

4. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1905)
"Mr. Slade also exhibited a view of the Chateau de Candiac, ... Mr. Slade concluded by giving the following list of the portraits of Montcalm: * 1. ..."

5. The Bibliography of Vermont: Or, A List of Books and Pamphlets Relating in by Marcus Davis Gilman (1897)
"—Speech of Mr. Slade, of Vermont, on the Tariff Bill, Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 29, 1833. 8vo, pp. 24. —Speech on the subject of ..."

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