clearing

Examples

• All

• IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CLEARING, THERE WAS A HUT AND A VERY SKINNY DOG.

  Lawn Dogs (1997)

• We are close to one of the raised interior islands, with up to 20 acres of clearings and wooded areas.

  Academic text (2011)

• You have the clearing of a forest, correct?

• And walking across the clearing towards me came the mother leopard.

  Tim Ferriss

• And I come into a clearing and at the same time running the opposite direction comes a stag.

  Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

• Clearings in the jungle just like the army drop sites during the war.

  Skullduggery (1970)

• In the dry season, however, we found both sexes near the ground, particularly in sunny clearings.

  Academic text (1992)

• Vines seemed to be everywhere: in the clearings, in the trees, in the undergrowth stretched across the trails.

  Fiction book (2001)

• THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL CLEARING JUST UP AHEAD.

  One Crazy Summer (1986)

• You're clambering through the Bush on one of Indonesia's Lesser Sunda islands when you suddenly spy a Komodo dragon in the clearing ahead.

Synonyms

S

swath

vsclearing

43 6.7

A wide strip of land cut by a machine or tool

is a general open area, not limited to a narrow or linear strip

F

flat

vsclearing

28 1.3

A large area of level land with few or no trees

is about an opening in a forest, not about being level ground

O

open field

vsclearing

18 1.2

A large area of land without buildings or trees used for play

is an opening usually found inside a forest rather than any open land

G

glade

vsclearing

17 5.4

An open area in a forest with few or no trees

is the more general common word for the same forest opening

C

clearcut

vsclearing

1 6.0

An area of forest where all the trees have been cut down

is any forest opening, not only those entirely cut at once

C

cutover

vsclearing

• Specialized

1 7.5

Land where people have removed the trees by logging

is the general open area regardless of how trees were removed

Antonyms

F

forest

904 1.0

A large area of land covered mostly with trees and bushes

T

thicket

16 5.1

A thick area of bushes and small trees that grow close together

Compounds

C

clearing house

• Specialized

3 4.8

An organization that collects and shares information or payments between other groups

C

clearing house

• Specialized

2 4.9

A central place where banks exchange payments and settle accounts daily

How Big

field

777 1.0

to meadow

9.9

clearing

56 2.8

glade

17 5.4

opening

101 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology