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Glad

//ɡlæd// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pleased; happy; gratified. predicative, usually

    "I'm glad the rain has finally stopped."

  2. 2
    Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness. obsolete, predicative, usually

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

Adjective
  1. 1
    cheerful and bright wordnet
  2. 2
    feeling happy appreciation wordnet
  3. 3
    showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy wordnet
  4. 4
    eagerly disposed to act or to be of service wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the female given name Gladys.
Noun
  1. 1
    A gladiolus (plant). informal, predicative, usually

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

  2. 2
    any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make glad. archaic, predicative, transitive, usually

    "that which gladded all the warrior train"

Etymology

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”), Russian гла́дкий (gládkij, “smooth”). Doublet of glatt.

Etymology 2

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”), Russian гла́дкий (gládkij, “smooth”). Doublet of glatt.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of gladiolus.

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