[Answered] What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called?

submitted by HottieAutie edited

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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RubberDuck

A clearing?

kinsnik

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

qjkxbmwvz

What, the curtains?

ivanafterall

No, that can't be it...

Taniwha420

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

PlutoniumAcid

... London?

Dasus

Apparently not.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_London#Proposed_etymologies

rayyy
viking

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

xmunk

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

dragonfly

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

SadSadSatellite

A glen?

Hugh_Jeggs

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

Dandroid

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

SomeAmateur

That movie with the snakes on a plane?

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

HottieAutie [OP]

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.