# glad
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡlæd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore) IPA: /ˈɡlɛəd/
* 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”), Russian гла́дкий (gládkij, “smooth”). Doublet of glatt.

#### Adjective

glad (comparative gladder or more glad, superlative gladdest or most glad) (usually predicative)
* 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene 2]: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."
* (obsolete) Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
** a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:Her conversation / More glad to me than to a miser money is.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Glad Eevening & glad morn crownd the fourth day.

##### Antonyms

* cranky
* depressed
* downcast
* heavy
* peevish
* sad
* sorrowful

##### Derived terms

* engladden
* get glad in the same britches one got mad in
* get glad in the same pants one got mad in
* glad and sorry
* gladden
* glad-eye
* gladful
* glad-hand
* gladhand
* glad hand
* glad-handed
* glad-hander
* glad-handing
* gladhearted
* gladless
* gladly
* Gladman
* gladness
* glad rags
* gladsome
* glad tidings
* glad wrap
* overglad
* unglad

##### Translations
#### Verb

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

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Abbreviation of gladiolus

#### Noun

glad (plural glads)
* (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

* GDAL

## 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: /ɡlɑːt/

### Noun

glad f (plural gladoù)
* arable land
* patrimony, estate
* (archaic) territory, country
* (archaic) feudal domain

#### Inflection
## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse glaðr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡlað/, [ˈɡ̊læð], [ˈklæð̠˕ˠ]
* Rhymes: -ad

### Adjective

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

### References

* “glad” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɣlɑt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: glad
* Rhymes: -ɑt

### Adjective

glad (comparative gladder, superlative gladst)
* smooth, polished
* slippery

#### Derived terms

* gladheid
* gladjanus
* gladweg
* op glad ijs bevinden
* spekglad
* spiegelglad

#### Descendants

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

### Adverb

glad
* 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: /ɡlad/, /ɡlaːd/

### Adjective

glad
* 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: /ɡɽɑː/, /ɡlɑː/

### Adjective

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

### References

* “glad” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse glaðr. Akin to English glad.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡlɑː/

### Adjective

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

### References

* “glad” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡlɑːd/

### Verb

glād
* first/third-person singular preterite indicative of glīdan

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gladaz.

### Adjective

glad
* glad

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *goldъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡlâːd/

### Noun

glȃd f (Cyrillic spelling гла̑д)
* hunger
    (T)ko radi, ne boji se gladi. ― Who works, fears hunger not.

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “glad”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gȏldъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡláːt/

### Noun

glȃd m inan
* 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

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /ɡlɑː(d)/

### Adjective

glad (comparative gladare, superlative gladast)
* happy, glad (feeling or causing happiness)
    Antonym: ledsen
    Jag blev glad när jag fick klappa den gulliga kaninen och fick en stor glassI was [became] happy when I got to pet the cute rabbit and got a big ice cream
    De blev glada när laget de hejade på vannThey were [became] happy when the team they were rooting for won
    vara på glatt humörbe in a happy mood
    en glad nyheta piece of happy news
    glad och ledsenhappy and sad
* (somewhat colloquial, with i (“in”)) fond of
    Near-synonym: svår på
    vara glad i kvinnor / spritbe fond of women / alcohol [liquor]
    Jag är glad i digI am fond of you [implies romantically]

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

#### Derived terms

* glad i hatten (“drunk”)
* glad i hågen
* gladlynt

#### Related terms

* glädja
* glädje

### References

* glad in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* glad in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* glad in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* lagd