glad

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlæd/

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• Rhymes: -æd
• Homophone: GLAAD

Etymology 1

From Middle English glad, gled, from Old English glæd (“shining; bright; cheerful; glad”), from Proto-Germanic *gladaz (“shiny; gleaming; radiant; happy; glossy; smooth; flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰladʰ-, from *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”).

Cognate with Scots gled, glaid (“shining; bright; glad”), Saterland Frisian glääd (“smooth; sleek”), West Frisian glêd (“smooth”), Dutch glad (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), German glatt (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish glad (“glad; happy; cheerful”), Icelandic glaður (“glad; joyful; cheery”), Latin glaber (“smooth; hairless; bald”). Doublet of glatt.

Adjective

glad (comparative gladder or more glad, superlative gladdest or most glad) (predicative only)

1. Pleased, happy, gratified.

   I'm glad the rain has finally stopped.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Proverbs 10:1:

     A wise son maketh a glad father.

   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd / To bear the tidings of calamity.

   • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:

     "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."

2. (obsolete) Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:

     Her conversation / More glad to me than to a miser money is.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:

     Glad Eevening & glad morn crownd the fourth day.

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Translations

Verb

glad (third-person singular simple present glads, present participle gladding, simple past and past participle gladded)

1. (archaic, transitive) To make glad.

   Synonyms: cheer up, gladden, exhilarate

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:

     that which gladded all the warrior train

   • 1725, Homer, “Book VII”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. , volume II, London: Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:

     Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.

   • 1922, A. E. Housman, Epithalamium, line 3:

     God that glads the lover's heart

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of gladiolus

Noun

glad (plural glads)

1. (informal) A gladiolus (plant).
   • 2008, Lynn Byczynski, The Flower Farmer, page 217:

     Glads are widely grown as cut flowers both in the United States and abroad.

Anagrams

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Breton

Alternative forms

• gwlad

Etymology

From Middle Breton gloat (“kingdom, wealth”), from Proto-Brythonic *gwlad, from Proto-Celtic *wlatis (“sovereignty”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wélh₁tis ~ *h₂wl̥h₁téy-, from the root *h₂welh₁-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑːt/

Noun

glad f (plural gladoù)

1. arable land
2. patrimony, estate
3. (archaic) territory, country
4. (archaic) feudal domain

Inflection

g=f

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse glaðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlað/, ,
• Rhymes: -ad

Adjective

glad (neuter glad, plural and definite singular attributive glade, comparative gladere, superlative (predicative) gladest, superlative (attributive) gladeste)

1. happy, glad

References

• “glad” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch glat, from Old Dutch *glad, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣlɑt/

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• Hyphenation: glad
• Rhymes: -ɑt

Adjective

glad (comparative gladder, superlative gladst)

1. smooth, polished
2. slippery

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Berbice Creole Dutch: glati
• Negerhollands: glat
• → Aukan: gaata
• → Papiamentu: glad (dated)

Adverb

glad

1. completely, entirely (mostly along with verbs and adjective with a negative meaning)

Usage notes

The usage as an adverb is highly restricted to verbs such as vergeten (“to forget”) and bederven (“to spoil, to rot”) and adjectives such as mis (“wrong, incorrect”) and verkeerd (“wrong, incorrect”).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• glade, gladde, glaid, gled

Etymology

From Old English glæd, from Proto-West Germanic *glad, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlaːd/, /ɡlad/

Adjective

glad

1. joyful, merry, happy

Descendants

• English: glad
• Scots: gled, glaid
• Yola: glaude

References

• “glā̆d, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse glaðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɽɑː/, /ɡlɑː/

Adjective

glad (neuter singular glad, definite singular and plural glade, comparative gladere, indefinite superlative gladest, definite superlative gladeste)

1. happy, glad

References

• “glad” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse glaðr. Akin to English glad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑː/

Adjective

glad (neuter singular glad, definite singular and plural glade, comparative gladare, indefinite superlative gladast, definite superlative gladaste)

1. happy, glad

References

• “glad” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gladaz.

Adjective

glad

1. glad

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:

glad

Wikipedia ^sh

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *goldъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlâːd/

Noun

glȃd f (Cyrillic spelling гла̑д)

1. hunger

   (T)ko radi, ne boji se gladi. ― Who works, fears hunger not.

Declension

Further reading

• “glad” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gȏldъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡláːt/

Noun

glȃd m inan

1. hunger

   Synonym: lakota

Further reading

• “glad”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “glad”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish glaþer, from Old Norse glaðr, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰladʰ-, derivation of Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑː(d)/

Adjective

glad (comparative gladare, superlative gladast)

1. happy, glad

   Vi var glada att höra det.

   We were happy to hear that.

Declension

Derived terms

• glad i hatten (“drunk”)

Related terms

• glädja
• glädje

Further reading

• glad in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

• lagd