glad

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   feeling happy appreciation

   glad of the fire's warmth

2. 2
   adj

   eagerly disposed to act or to be of service

   glad to help

3. 3
   adj

   Pleased; happy; gratified.

   I'm glad the rain has finally stopped.

4. 4
   adj

   Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.

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

5. 5
   verb

   To make glad.

   that which gladded all the warrior train

6. 6
   noun

   A gladiolus (plant).

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

7. 7
   adj

   cheerful and bright

8. 8
   adj

   showing or causing joy and pleasure

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”),…