Usually means: Feeling pleased, joyful, or delighted.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word glad:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. glad: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. glad, glad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glad, glad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glad: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glad: Vocabulary.com
  6. Glad, glad: Wordnik
  7. glad: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Glad, glad: Wiktionary
  9. glad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. glad: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. glad: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Glad, Glad, glad: Dictionary.com
  13. glad: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. glad: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. G.L.A.D, Glad (Norse mythology), Glad (band), Glad (company), Glad (duke), Glad (song), Glad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Glad: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. glad: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. glad: Rhymezone
  19. glad, glad: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. glad: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. GLAD: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. glad: Free Dictionary
  23. glad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. glad: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. glad: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glad (disambiguation), glad: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glad: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. GLAD: Acronym Finder
  3. glad: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)
  2. GLAD: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. glad: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. G.L.A.D, glad: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gladded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Pleased, happy, gratified.
adjective:  (obsolete) Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To make glad.
noun:  (informal) A gladiolus (plant).
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Gladys

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