Glad vs Jubilee - What's the difference?
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Pleased, happy, gratified.
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*(Bible), (w) x.1:
*:A wise son maketh a glad father.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Glad am I that your highness is so armed.
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*:"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."
(lb) Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
*Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
*:Her conversation / More glad to me than to a miser money is.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Glad' evening and ' glad morn crowned the fourth day.
To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
* Dryden
* Alexander Pope
* 1922 , , Epithalamium , line 3
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 120:
A fiftieth anniversary.
(Catholicism) A special year (originally held every hundred years, then fifty, and then fewer) in which remission from sin could be granted as well as indulgences upon making a pilgrimage to Rome.
A time of celebration or rejoicing.
(obsolete) A period of fifty years; a half-century.
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.5:
As verbs the difference between glad and jubilee
is that glad is while jubilee is .glad
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Adjective
(en-adj)Usage notes
The comparative "gladder" and superlative "gladdest" are not incorrect but may be unfamiliar enough to be taken as such. In both American and British English, the forms "more" and "most glad" are equally common in print and more common in daily speech.Antonyms
* sorrowful * sad * downcast * peevish * cranky * heavy * depressedDerived terms
* engladden * gladden * gladlyVerb
(gladd)- that which gladded all the warrior train
- Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.
- God that glads the lover's heart
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* 1000 English basic words ----jubilee
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(wikipedia jubilee)Alternative forms
* jubileNoun
(en noun)- in the old Israel, there had supposedly been a system of ‘Jubilee ’, a year in which all land should go back to the family to which it had originally belonged and during which all slaves should be released.
- How their faiths could decline so low, as to concede [...] that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of copulation, that is, a coition of one act prolonged unto fifty years.