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单词 glad
释义

glad

See also: Glad, gläd, glað, and glåd

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlæd/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • 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”). Doublet of glatt.

Adjective

glad (comparative gladder or more glad, superlative gladdest or most glad)

  1. Pleased, happy, gratified.
    I'm glad the rain has finally stopped.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 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 606515358, [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 491297620:
      "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."
  2. (obsolete) Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
    • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, OCLC 801077108; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, OCLC 318419127:
      Her conversation / More glad to me than to a miser money is.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
      Glad Eevening & glad morn crownd the fourth day.
Antonyms
  • cranky
  • depressed
  • downcast
  • heavy
  • peevish
  • sad
  • sorrowful
Derived terms
  • engladden
  • gladden
  • gladly
Translations

Verb

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

  1. (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 228732415:
      that which gladded all the warrior train
    • 1725, Homer; [Alexander Pope], transl., “Book VII”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume II, London: […] Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646:
      Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.
    • 1922, A. E. Housman, Epithalamium, line 3
      God that glads the lover's heart

Noun

glad (plural glads)

  1. (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(key): /ɡlɑːt/

Noun

glad f (plural gladoù)

  1. arable land
  2. patrimony, estate
  3. (archaic) territory, country
  4. (archaic) feudal domain

Inflection

  Mutation of glad  
Breton consonant mutation
unmutatedsoftaspiratehard
singulargladc'hladunchangedklad
pluralgladoùc'hladoùunchangedkladoù

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse glaðr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡlað/, [ˈɡ̊læð], [ˈklæð̠˕ˠ]
  • Rhymes: -ad

Adjective

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

  1. happy, glad

References

  • “glad” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

glad (comparative gladder, superlative gladst)

  1. smooth, polished
  2. slippery

Inflection

Inflection of glad
uninflectedglad
inflectedgladde
comparativegladder
positivecomparativesuperlative
predicative/adverbialgladgladderhet gladst
het gladste
indefinitem./f. sing.gladdegladderegladste
n. sing.gladgladdergladste
pluralgladdegladderegladste
definitegladdegladderegladste
partitivegladsgladders—

Derived terms

  • gladheid
  • gladjanus
  • spekglad
  • spiegelglad

Descendants

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

Adverb

glad

  1. 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(key): /ɡlaːd/, /ɡlad/

Adjective

glad

  1. 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(key): /ɡɽɑː/, /ɡlɑː/

Adjective

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

  1. happy, glad

References

  • “glad” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse glaðr. Akin to English glad.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlɑː/

Adjective

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

  1. happy, glad

References

  • “glad” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gladaz.

Adjective

glad

  1. glad

Declension

Positive forms of glad
Strong declension
gendermasculinefeminineneuter
casesingularpluralsingularpluralsingularplural
nominativegladglade, gladagladgladagladglad, glada
accusativegladan, gladenglada, gladegladagladagladglad, glada
genitiveglades, gladasgladaro, gladoro, gladerogladara, gladarogladaro, gladoro, gladeroglades, gladasgladaro, gladoro, gladero
dativegladumu, gladum, gladun, gladun, gladon, gladen, gladangladun, gladon, gladumgladaro, gladaru, gladaragladun, gladongladumu, gladum, gladun, gladun, gladon, gladen, gladangladun, gladon, gladum
Weak declension
gendermasculinefeminineneuter
casesingularpluralsingularpluralsingularplural
nominativeglado, gladagladon, gladunglada, gladegladon, gladun, gladanglada, gladegladon, gladun
accusativegladon, gladangladon, gladungladun, gladon, gladangladon, gladun, gladanglada, gladegladon, gladun
genitivegladen, gladangladono, gladenogladun, gladan, gladengladonogladen, gladangladono, gladeno
dativegladon, gladen, gladangladon, gladungladun, gladangladon, gladungladon, gladen, gladangladon, gladun


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *goldъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlâːd/

Noun

glȃd f (Cyrillic spelling гла̑д)

  1. hunger
    (T)ko radi, ne boji segladi. ― Who works, fears hunger not.

Declension

Declension of glad
singularplural
nominativegladgladi
genitivegladigladi
dativegladigladima
accusativegladgladi
vocativegladigladi
locativegladigladima
instrumentalglađu / gladigladima

Slovene

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gȏldъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡláːt/

Noun

glȃd m inan

  1. hunger
    Synonym: lakota

Further reading

  • “glad”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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(key): /ɡlɑː(d)/

Adjective

glad (comparative gladare, superlative gladast)

  1. happy, glad

Declension

Inflection of glad
IndefinitePositiveComparativeSuperlative2
Common singulargladgladaregladast
Neuter singularglattgladaregladast
Pluralgladagladaregladast
Masculine plural3gladegladaregladast
DefinitePositiveComparativeSuperlative
Masculine singular1gladegladaregladaste
Allgladagladaregladaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

Derived terms

  • glad i hatten (“drunk”)
  • glädja
  • glädje

Further reading

  • glad in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

  • lagd
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