glad

comparative gladder · comparative more glad · superlative gladdest · superlative most glad

1. predicativeusuallyPleased; happy; gratified.

   I'm always glad to be of service.

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   I'm glad the rain has finally stopped.

   I was glad of receiving the tent in time for the camping trip.

   I am glad of you. And so I have been since our first encounter.

   I'm very glad at this decision because we'd been on the ropes for a while.

   I am happy and glad at your success.

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

   Glad Eevening & glad morn crownd the fourth day.

   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

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

   The New Arcadia

   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

present singular third person glads · participle present gladding · participle past gladded · past gladded

1. archaicpredicativetransitiveusuallyTo make glad.

   God that glads the lover's heart

   1922, A. E. Housman, Epithalamium, line 3

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   that which gladded all the warrior train

   1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

   Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.

   1725, Homer, “Book VII”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume II, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

   Synonyms: cheer up, gladden, exhilarate

plural glads

1. informalpredicativeusuallyA gladiolus (plant).

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

   2008, Lynn Byczynski, The Flower Farmer, page 217

1. A diminutive of the female given name Gladys.