glad 
glad (glad)
adjective glad′·der, glad′·dest
- feeling or characterized by pleasure or joy; happy; pleased
- causing pleasure or joy; making happy
- very willing I'm glad to help
- bright or beautiful
Etymology: ME < OE glæd, akin to Ger glatt, smooth (the orig. Gmc sense) < IE *ghlādh-, shining, smooth < base *ĝhel-, to shine > gleam, gold
transitive verb, intransitive verb glad′·ded, glad′·ding
Archaic to gladden
Etymology: ME gladen < OE gladian
glad (glad)
noun
Informal gladiolus (sense )
glad
modif.
Preposition: that
- Hon: Mr. Moss: I am glad that the hon.
Modifying Another Word
- awfully: I am awfully glad you are coming home in June.
- so: I'm so glad I got to see you.
- heartily: No problems with the injections although I was heartily glad when they ended.
- exceedingly: I am exceedingly glad that I am to have the privilege of another gem from Annie.
- very: I should be very glad to pay my respects to her.
Infinitive complement
- hear: We would be glad to hear from them too.
- see: The United States says Iraqis will be glad to see the back of Saddam.
- say: I am glad to say that, over the years, we have received every such " facility " .
- know: I mean, I'm glad to know the Rt.
- assist: It doesn't matter how many times someone calls me, I'm just glad to assist.
- help: Our friendly staff will be glad to help you find the right course for you.
Modifies a noun
- tidings: But the philosophical rewards are enough for me - there's no finer feeling than being the bearer of glad tidings.
- rag: So get your glad rags on, we're coming to your town.
- soccer: Soccer: We're still fighting, says Phil Soccer: Glad tidings Soccer: Swindon Town 1-0 Colchester.. .
- I: Glad I came, glad I chose 10 weeks.
- someone: Anyway glad someone had a wizard time there, eh what!
Used with adjective complement
When you are old and greyand full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly how Love fled And paced among the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.
But set down This, set down This: were we led all that way for Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly, We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death But had thought they were different; this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death. We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, With an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death.
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the L.
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
I'm glad you like adverbsöI adore them; theyare the only qualifications I really much respect.
One morning, as I was sitting by the fire, a great cloud came over me, and a temptation beset me, and I sate still And as I sate still under it and let it alone, a living hope rose in me, and a true voice arose in me which cried:There is a living God who made all things. And immediately the cloud and temptation vanished away, and the life rose over it all, and my heart was glad, and I praised the living God.
Lieutenant, is that your sword, or are you just glad to see me?
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