glad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlæd/
note: New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /ˈɡlɛəd/
rhymes: -æd
homophone: GLAAD
Forms: form: gladder
form: more glad
form: gladdest
form: most glad
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: I'm glad the rain has finally stopped.
text: I'm always glad to be of service.
text: I was glad of receiving the tent in time for the camping trip.
text: I am glad of you. And so I have been since our first encounter.
text: I'm very glad at this decision because we'd been on the ropes for a while.
text: I am happy and glad at your success.
text: Every day I feel glad about the life I am living.
text: A wise son maketh a glad father.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 10:1:
text: Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd / To bear the tidings of calamity.
ref: 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]:
text: "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."
ref: 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:
glosses: Pleased; happy; gratified.
examples: text: Her conversation / More glad to me than to a miser money is.
ref: 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:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: Glad Eevening & glad morn crownd the fourth day.
ref: 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:
glosses: Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
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