glad
adjetivoverbosustantivotop 1 000 en diálogos de cine
- Reino Unido//ɡlad//
- Reino Unido//ɡlaːd//
- Estados Unidos//ɡlæd//
- Australia//ɡlæːd//
Pleased; happy; gratified.
adjetivo
- 1
Pleased; happy; gratified.
I'm glad the rain has finally stopped.
I'm always glad to be of service.
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.
- 2
obsoletoHaving a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
Her conversation / More glad to me than to a miser money is.
Glad Eevening & glad morn crownd the fourth day.
Etimología
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.
verbo
- 1
arcaicoTo make glad.
that which gladded all the warrior train
Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.
God that glads the lover's heart
sustantivo
- 1
informalA gladiolus (plant).
Glads are widely grown as cut flowers both in the United States and abroad.
Etimología
Abbreviation of gladiolus.
Formas
- plural
- glads
- comparativo
- gladder, more glad
- superlativo
- gladdest, most glad
- pasado
- gladded
- participio
- gladded
- gerundio
- gladding
- 3.ª persona del singular
- glads