Definition of glad

"glad" in the noun sense

1. gladiolus, gladiola, glad, sword lily

any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers widely cultivated

"glad" in the adjective sense

1. glad

showing or causing joy and pleasure especially made happy

"glad you are here"

"glad that they succeeded"

"gave a glad shout"

"a glad smile"

"heard the glad news"

"a glad occasion"

2. glad, happy

eagerly disposed to act or to be of service

"glad to help"

3. glad

feeling happy appreciation

"glad of the fire's warmth"

4. beaming, glad

cheerful and bright

"a beaming smile"

"a glad May morning"

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Quotations for glad

Richer than rubies,
Dearer than gold,
Woman, true woman,
Glad we behold! [ Old love-song ]

Poor folks are glad of porridge. [ Proverb ]

They that have no other meat
Bread and butter are glad to eat. [ Proverb ]

A blind man will be glad to see it. [ Proverb ]

Whenever a noble deed is wrought.
Whenever is spoken a noble thought.
Our hearts, in glad surprise,
To higher levels rise. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

And kind the voice and glad the eyes
That welcome my return at night. [ William Cullen Bryant ]

Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven
That from the East glad message brings:
Night is a stealthy, evil Raven,
Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings. [ T. B. Aldrich ]

Tomorrow; never yet was born
In earth's dull atmosphere a thing so fair
Never tripped, with footsteps light as air,
So glad a vision over the hills of morn. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]

Silent when glad; affectionate, though shy. [ Beattie ]

Live long and happy, and in that thought die;
Glad for what was. [ Robert Browning ]

For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. [ William Shakespeare ]

Every one is glad to see a knave caught in his own trap. [ Proverb ]

No man doth safely speak but he who is glad to hold his peace. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

A tired traveller must be glad of an ass, if he have not a horse. [ Proverb ]

When the glad sun, exulting in his might, comes from the dusky-curtained tents of night. [ Emma G. Embary ]

Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. [ Henry van Dyke ]

Amongst so many borrowed things , I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. [ Montaigne ]

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world; and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room. [ George Eliot ]

I confess I should be glad if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to me: in that case, I should often find matter for rejoicing. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

I am glad to think that I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints. [ Jean Ingelow ]

If all men would bring their misfortunes together in one place, most would be glad to take his own home again, rather than to take a proportion out of the common stock. [ Solon ]

O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea. Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam. Survey our empire, and behold our home! [ Byron ]

It is so possible to be glad in the gladness of other people ; and, too, it is possible so to extend one's own life into higher regions that his happiness shall not be altogether dependent upon other people. [ Lilian Whiting ]

How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light! [ Dewey ]

Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers. [ Alcott ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

glad in Scrabble®

The word glad is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters glad:

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glad in Words With Friends™

The word glad is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters glad:

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Words within the letters of glad

2 letter words in glad (3 words)

3 letter words in glad (4 words)

4 letter words in glad (1 word)

glad + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence glad

Words with glad in them (3 words)

Words that end with glad (1 word)

Word Growth involving glad

Shorter words in glad

ad lad

la lad

Longer words containing glad

gladden gladdened

gladden gladdening

gladden gladdens

gladder

gladdest

glade everglade everglades

glade glades everglades

gladhearted gladheartedly

gladhearted gladheartedness

gladiator gladiatorial

gladiator gladiators

gladiola gladiolas

gladioli

gladiolus

gladlier

gladly

gladness