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!
19 Comments
Badeendje@lemmy.world · 115 pts · 2y
A clearing?
kinsnik@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 2y
Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website · 3 pts · 2y
What, the curtains?
ivanafterall@kbin.social · 12 pts · 2y
No, that can't be it...
Taniwha420@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 2y
Old English was 'den'. Place names ending in 'den' or 'don' were originally farmsteads cleared in the forest, i.e. Wimbledon, or Camden.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
... London?
Dasus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Apparently not.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_London#Proposed_etymologies
viking@infosec.pub · 30 pts · 2y
In forestry they use the word "glade", but clearing is indeed much more common in day to day usage.
rayyy@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y
In the most general sense, a glade or clearing is an open area within a forest.
lechatron@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 2y
Clearing.
onion@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y
man_made=clearcut
xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 2y
"Break" might also be used but it'd come in third behind "Clearing" and "Glenn" that others have mentioned.
dragonfly@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Glade. "A small area of grass without trees in a forest."
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 2y
A glen?
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
A glen is just another word for valley, so not the word op is looking for
dandroid@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
What's that song about Grandma getting run over by a reindeer?
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
That movie with the snakes on a plane?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 1 pts · 2y
Is the word you're looking for possibly "meadow?" Or " prairie?"
HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y
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.