Gladness

Definition: Gladness

Gladness

Noun

1. Experiencing joy and pleasure.

Date "gladness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Gladness \Glad"ness\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression gl[ae]dnes.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Gladness

Synonyms: gladfulness (n), gladsomeness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pleasure	Joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Gladness

English words defined with "gladness": bright ♦ cheering ♦ Glad on 't, Gladful, Gladship, gladsome ♦ heartwarming ♦ -some ♦ To take pleasure in. (references)

Etymologies containing "gladness": Gladful. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Fill my life with gladness (HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY; performing artist: Rod Stewart) You fill my heart with gladness (HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY; performing artist: Rod Stewart)
Movie/TV Titles	A Voice of Gladness (1920) The Gates of Gladness (1918)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Season of Gladness (Hoekstra, Elizabeth M., All Creation Sings.) (reference) Experiencing God's Forgiveness: The Journey from Guilt to Gladness (reference) Gladness of His Return (reference) The Month of Gladness (Linford Romance Library) [LARGE PRINT] (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Ben Jonson	When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli	Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Friedrich Schiller	No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
President Abraham Lincoln	We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
Washington Irving	A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Like President Washington, like the more fortunate of his successors, I look forward to the status of private citizen with gladness and gratitude.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Gladness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gladness" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	32	61,292

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "gladness".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
En-haddah	N/A	Biblical	Well of gladness
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Language		Translations for "gladness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		vreugde (joy). (various references)

Albanian		gëzim (cheer, enjoyment, festivity, gaiety, glee, joy, merriment, mirth, rejoice, waggery). (various references)

Arabic		‏فرح (cheer, cheerful, delight, gaiety, gladden, glee, gleesome, gloat, happy, joy, joyful, liven up, rejoicing, thaw, tickle), ‏سعادة (beatitude, excellency, felicity, glee, happiness, his excellency, joy, privilege, sunshine, weal, welfare, well being), ‏سرور (delight, merriment, pleasure), ‏بهجة (cheering, delectation, delight, felicity, festival, joy, merriment). (various references)

Bulgarian		радост (delight, enjoyment, glee, jocundity, joy, jubilance, mirth, rejoicing, sunshine), веселост (boisterousness, conviviality, gaiety, hilarity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, pleasantness, pleasantry, sparkle, sprightliness). (various references)

Chinese		歡樂 (gaiety, gay, glee, happy, joyous, merriment, pleasure). (various references)

Czech		radost (delight, joy, merriment, pleasure, treat). (various references)

Danish		glæde (joy). (various references)

Dutch		vreugde (joy), verheuging (joy), verheugenis (joy), blýheid (joy), blýdschap (joy). (various references)

Esperanto		ĝojo (joy), ĝojeco (joy). (various references)

Faeroese		gleði (joy), frøi (joy, triumph). (various references)

Finnish		ilo (delight, joy, pleasure, rejoicing). (various references)

French		joie (glee, gleesome). (various references)

Frisian		blydskip (joy). (various references)

German		freude (blitheness, delight, enjoyment, fun, funnies, glee, gratification, happiness, joice, joy, joyousness, mirth, pleasure), fröhlichkeit (blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, festiveness, gaiety, gayness, gleefulness, happiness, jauntiness, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joyance, joyfulness, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth). (various references)

Greek		χαρά (delight, delight in, elation, exhilaration, glee, joy, mirth, rejoicing). (various references)

Hawaiian		gëzim (joy). (various references)

Hebrew		שמח�" (cheer, exhilaration, felicity, gaiety, glee, happiness, joy, mirth), ח�"ו�" (delight, exultation, joy), �'יל�" (delight, discover, exultation, find out, joy), �'יל (age, delight, exultation, glee, joy). (various references)

Hungarian		boldogság (beatitude, bliss, felicity, happiness, joy, rejoicing, weal), öröm (delight, fun, gratification, groove, joy, jubilant, jubilation, mirth, pleasure, rejoicing). (various references)

Indonesian		kegirangan (elation, gaiety, happiness), kegembiraan (excitement, excuberance, exhilaration, gaiety, happiness, joy, mirth, rhapsody). (various references)

Irish		Úthas (joy). (various references)

Italian		gioia (delight, enjoyment, gem, glee, jewel, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, mirth, rejoicing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		欣悦 (joy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きねつ (joy). (various references)

Lombard		allegria (joy). (various references)

Manx		taitnys (agreeableness, amenity, amenity of person, congeniality, delectation, enchantment, enjoyment, pleasure, treat, treat pleasure), boggey eunys. (various references)

Norwegian		glede (delight, enjoyment, gratify, joy, zest). (various references)

Papiamen		alegria (joy), alegría (joy). (various references)

Pig Latin		adnessglay

Polish		radość. (various references)

Portuguese		alegria (bliss, cheer, conviviality, delight, enjoyment, exhilaration, exultant, felicity, frolic, gaiety, glee, happiness, Hill, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, jovian, joy, joyless, jubilant, jubilee, lighthouse, merriment, mirth, pleasure, rejoicing, sunshine, vivacity, whoopee). (various references)

Romanian		veselie (animation, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exultation, feast, festival, festivity, fiskiness, fling, gaiety, gale, geniality, great spirits, high spirits, hilarity, jamboree, jauntiness, jocoseness, jocundity, jollification, jollity, joviality, joy, jubilation, merriment, merriness, merry making, mirth, rejoicing, rejoicings), bucurie (cheerfulness, comfort, delight, ecstasy, enjoyment, exhilaration, exultation, felicity, gayety, glee, gusto, happiness, joy, merriment, merriness, mirth, pleasure, rapture, raptures, treat). (various references)

Russian		радость (chuckle, glee, joy, mirth, rejoicing). (various references)

Scottish		aoibhneas (joy, pleasure), aiteas (joyfulness), aighear (gaiety, joy, mirth). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		radost (joy, joyfulness, jubilance, merriment, rejoicing). (various references)

Spanish		alegría (breeziness, cheerfulness, chuff, contention, contentment, fun, gaiety, happiness, hilarity, joy, joyfulness, kaif, keif, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, mirth, perkiness, pertness, playfulness, rejoicing). (various references)

Swahili		furaha (joy). (various references)

Swedish		glädje (cheer, delight, elation, gaiety, glee, happiness, jollity, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, mirth, pleasance, satisfaction), fröjd (delight, fun, joy, pleasure, rejoicing). (various references)

Thai		ความสุข (blissfulness, eudemonism, happiness). (various references)

Turkish		sevinç (delight, elation, exultation, gaiety, glee, joy, mirth, pleasure, rejoicing), memnuniyet (complacence, complacency, content, contentedness, contentment, gratification, pleasure, satisfaction), lezzet (daintiness, Flavor, flavour, good taste, joy, lusciousness, relish, salt, sapidity, sauce, savor, savoriness, savour, savouriness, smack, taste, zest). (various references)

Turkmen		яagtylyk (joy, light). (various references)

Ukranian		радість (amusement, exultance, exultancy, joy, joyfulness, rejoicing, sunshine), веселість (airiness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exhilaration, festivity, gaiety, hilarity, joviality). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự vui vẻ (cheer, gaiety, heartiness, hilarity, jauntiness, jocularity, jolliness, jollity, merriment, mirth), sự vui mừng (cheerfulness, festivity, joy, joyfulness, joyousness), sự sung sướng (blessedness, happiness), sự hân hoan (cheerfulness, elation, joy, jubilance, jubilation). (various references)

Welsh		llonder (joy), llawenydd (joy, mirth), hoen (joy, vigor). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	asilal, dug. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	gaudii, gaudio, gaudium, gaudiumque, laetitia, laetitiae, laetitiam, laetitiarum, laetitiis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 1, Verse 14
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai estai cara soi kai agalliasiV kai polloi epi th gennhsei autou carhsontai
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et erit gaudium tibi et exultatio et multi in nativitate eius gaudebunt
Old English	990	West Saxon	And he byð þe to gefean and to blisse, and manega on his acennednysse gefagniað
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And ioye and gladyng schal be to thee; and many schulen `haue ioye in his natyuyte.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And thou shalt have ioye and gladnes and many shall reioyce at his birth.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And thou shalt have joy and gladness, and many shall rejoice at his birth.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Luke Chapter 1, Verse 14
Cebuano	Ug mabatonan mo ang kalipay ug pagmaya, ug daghan ang magakalipay sa iyang pagkatawo;
Croatian	Bit æe ti radost i veselje i roðenje æe njegovo mnoge obradovati.
Danish	Og han skal blive dig til Glæde og Fryd, og mange skulle glædes over hans Fødsel;
Dutch	En u zal blijdschap en verheuging zijn, en velen zullen zich over zijn geboorte verblijden.
Finnish	Ja hän on oleva sinulle iloksi ja riemuksi, ja monet iloitsevat hänen syntymisestään.
French	Il sera pour toi un sujet de joie et d`allégresse, et plusieurs se réjouiront de sa naissance.
German	Und du wirst des Freude und Wonne haben, und viele werden sich seiner Geburt freuen.
Hungarian	És lészen tenéked örömödre és vigasságodra, és sokan fognak örvendezni az õ születésén;
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Engkau akan sangat gembira dan banyak orang akan bersukaria bila anak itu lahir nanti!
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Dan akan jadi kesukaan dengan sukaria bagimu, serta banyak orang akan menyukakan kelahirannya.
Italian	Avrai gioia ed esultanza e molti si rallegreranno della sua nascita,
Manx Gaelic	As bee boggey as gerjagh ayd, as nee ymmodee boggey y ghoaill tra hig eh er y theihll.
Maori	A ka whiwhi koe i te hari me te harakoa; a he tokomaha hoki e hari i tona whanautanga.
Norwegian	og han skal bli dig til glede og fryd, og mange skal glede sig over hans fødsel.
Portuguese	e terás alegria e regozijo, e muitos se alegrarão com o seu nascimento;
Rumanian	El va fi pentru tine o pricinq de bucurie wi veselie, wi mulyi se vor bucura de nawterea lui.
Russian	Й �'Х�"ЕФ ФЕ�'Е ТБ�"ПУФШ Й ЧЕУЕМЙЕ, Й НОПЗЙЕ П ТПЦ�"ЕОЙЙ ЕЗП ЧПЪТБ�"ХАФУС,
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Spanish	Tendrás gozo y alegría, y muchos se gozarán de su nacimiento,
Swahili	Utakuwa na furaha kubwa na watu wengi watashangilia kwa sababu ya kuzaliwa kwake.
Swedish	Och han skall bliva dig till glädje och fröjd, och många skola glädja sig över hans födelse.
Uma	Uma mpai' mowo kagoe' -nu mpokagoe' ana' -nu tetui. Wori' tauna mpokagoe' kaputu-na.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "gladness": gladnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Gladness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gillanders, gladnesses, Glandasse. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "gladness" (pronounced 'Glad"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-l-n-s-s"
	-1 letter: dangles, glandes, glassed, lagends, sendals, slanged.
	-2 letters: angels, angled, angles, dangle, elands, gassed, glades, glands, gleans, ladens, lagend, naleds, sedans, sendal, slangs.
	-3 letters: angel, angle, assed, dales, dangs, deals, deans, degas, egads, eland, elans, gales, gases, gelds, glade, glads, gland, glans, glass, glean, gleds, glens, laden, lades, lands, lanes, lased, lases, leads, leans.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-l-n-s-s"
	+1 letter: glandless, seladangs.
	+2 letters: agendaless, declassing, gladnesses, gladstones, signalised.
	+3 letters: cradlesongs, darlingness, detasseling, displeasing, goldenseals, gradualness, laggardness, languidness, sanderlings, sandglasses.
	+4 letters: cladogeneses, cladogenesis, detasselling, digressional, disentangles, gangliosides, gladsomeness, sluggardness.
	+5 letters: darlingnesses, declassifying, disassembling, gradualnesses, laggardnesses, languidnesses, niggardliness, regardfulness, slaveholdings, strangleholds.
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