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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Say there's a forest, but there's a small cleared area where a family can build a place to live. What's the geographical term for that?

Edit: The word I was looking for was a clearing. A glen was suggested as well, but that is a space between rolling hills, while the space I was thinking of was on flat land.

Thank you everyone!

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[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 115 points 6 months ago
[-] kinsnik@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago

Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

What, the curtains?

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 12 points 6 months ago

No, that can't be it...

[-] Taniwha420@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago

Old English was 'den'. Place names ending in 'den' or 'don' were originally farmsteads cleared in the forest, i.e. Wimbledon, or Camden.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 29 points 6 months ago

In forestry they use the word "glade", but clearing is indeed much more common in day to day usage.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago
[-] lechatron@lemmy.today 20 points 6 months ago
[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago

"Break" might also be used but it'd come in third behind "Clearing" and "Glenn" that others have mentioned.

[-] dragonfly@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Glade. "A small area of grass without trees in a forest."

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago
[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

A glen is just another word for valley, so not the word op is looking for

[-] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

What's that song about Grandma getting run over by a reindeer?

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

That movie with the snakes on a plane?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Is the word you're looking for possibly "meadow?" Or " prairie?"

[-] HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Nope, but thank you! I think a meadow or prairie usually has vegetation like tall grasses or flowers. I'm more looking for a cleared area that has short grass at most. According to other posts it seems like a glen or clearing.

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