Usually means: Gladly, willingly, pleased to do.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word fain:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. fain: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fain, fa'in, fain: Wordnik
  7. Fain, fain: Wiktionary
  8. fain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fain: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Fain, fain: Dictionary.com
  11. fain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Fain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. fain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. fain: Rhymezone
  15. Fain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. fain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. fain: Free Dictionary
  18. fain: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. fain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Fain, fain: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. fain: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fain: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. FAIN: Acronym Finder
  3. fain: A Word A Day

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FAIN: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fain: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Fain)

adjective:  Well-pleased, glad.
adjective:  Satisfied, contented.
adjective:  Eager, willing or inclined to.
adjective:  Obliged or compelled to.
adverb:  With joy; gladly.
adverb:  By will or choice.
verb:  (archaic) To be delighted or glad; to rejoice.
verb:  (archaic) To gladden.
verb:  (Germanic paganism) to worship, to celebrate, to offer an oblation which is not sacrificial blót.
noun:  A surname.

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