Glad vs Glade - What's the difference?
glad | glade |
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
An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
* 2003 , Newsweek, Travel:
* 1851 ,
(colloquial) An everglade.
an open space in the ice on a river or lake
a bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice
(obsolete) a gleam of light; see moonglade
(obsolete) a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds
In obsolete terms the difference between glad and glade
is that glad is having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness while glade is a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds.As an adjective glad
is pleased, happy, gratified.As a verb glad
is to make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.As a noun glade is
an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.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
Statistics
* 1000 English basic words ----glade
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(wikipedia glade)Noun
(en noun)In The Trees, Nov 23, 2003
- ... are creating more "glades ," or cleared trails through the woods, for less experienced (blue) skiers. They're a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and machines rolled and packed the snow.
- [...] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
- In the latter days of a ferocious winter, the sun dropped earthwards, having on this day pulled clear of its sluggish trajectory casting a few meek rays on the redoubtable snow and frost of the mountain glade . — Vignette:
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