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!
A clearing?
No, that can’t be it…
In forestry they use the word “glade”, but clearing is indeed much more common in day to day usage.
In the most general sense, a glade or clearing is an open area within a forest.
“Break” might also be used but it’d come in third behind “Clearing” and “Glenn” that others have mentioned.
Glade. “A small area of grass without trees in a forest.”
A glen?
A glen is just another word for valley, so not the word op is looking for
What’s that song about Grandma getting run over by a reindeer?
That movie with the snakes on a plane?
Is the word you’re looking for possibly “meadow?” Or " prairie?"
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.