Glad

//ɡlæd//

Definitions

adjgladder · more glad · gladdest · most glad

1
Pleased; happy; gratified.
I'm glad the rain has finally stopped.
2
Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
Her conversation / More glad to me than to a miser money is.

verbglads · gladding · gladded

1
To make glad.
that which gladded all the warrior train

nounglads

1
A gladiolus (plant).
Glads are widely grown as cut flowers both in the United States and abroad.

name

1
A diminutive of the female given name Gladys.

Word Origin

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-Europe...

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