glad
showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
How often you will meet it
Rank 484 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 42,255 times across 173,849 chapters — 0.020% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy glad you are hereglad that they succeeded
- eagerly disposed to act or to be of service also: happy glad to help
- feeling happy appreciation glad of the fire's warmth
- cheerful and bright also: beaming a beaming smilea glad May morning
noun
- 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 also: gladiolus, gladiola, sword lily
glad in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I'm glad to have had this out with you.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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For behold I bring you glad tidings Of great joy.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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I said I should be very glad; so we entered.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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A woman ought to be gentle--if his mother had been alive--but then he was glad she wasn't.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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He also was evidently glad to get his tea, and enjoyed it as he sat at his cousin's side.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1