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Laden vs Gladen - What's the difference?

laden | gladen |

As nouns the difference between laden and gladen

is that laden is while gladen is sword grass.

As a verb gladen is

.

laden

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Weighed down with a load, burdened.
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
    • The other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels—for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola —others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.
  • Heavy.
  • Oppressed.
  • *
    • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden , drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
  • (label) In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * English adjectives ending in -en ----

    gladen

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) glaedene from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * gladdon * glader * gladwyn

    Noun

    (-)
  • Sword grass.
  • Any plant with sword-shaped leaves, especially .
    • (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 14th c', unknown translator, '''', transcription in '''1836 , Adam Clarke (editor), ''The Holy Bible: With a Commentary and Critical Notes , Volume 2, page 506,
    • We schul ful out joyen and gladen in thee, myndful of the tetis upon wyn, rigtmen loven thee.
  • * , 2004, page 67,
    • And to Pandare he held up bothe his hondes, / And seyde, 'Lord, al thyne be that I have, For I am hool, al brosten been my bondes: / A thousand Troians who so that me yave, / Eche after other, god so wis me save, / Ne mighte me so gladen ; lo myn herte, / It spredeth so for loye, it wol to-sterte!
  • * 1863', Jason Ham, ''Sanitary Report from Louisville, Ky'', '''1865 , ''Documentary Journal of the General Assembly of the State Indiana , page 166,
    • This is a pleasant part of my duty, it gladens my heart to be able to bestow upon the afflicted boys some of the comforts of home and former days.