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Webster 1913 Edition


Glede

Glede

(glēd)
,
Noun.
[AS.
glida
, akin to Icel.
gleða
, Sw.
glada
. Cf.
Glide
,
Verb.
I.
]
(Zool.)
The common European kite (
Milvus ictinus
). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard.
[Written also
glead
,
gled
,
gleed
,
glade
, and
glide
.]

Glede

,
Noun.
[See
Gleed
.]
A live coal.
[Archaic]
The cruel ire, red as any
glede
.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Glede

GLEDE

,
Noun.
A fowl of the rapacious kind, the kite, a species of Falco. The word is used in Deut.14.13. but the same Hebrew word, Lev.11.14. is rendered a vulture.

Definition 2024


glede

glede

English

Alternative forms

Noun

glede (plural gledes)

  1. A live coal, an ember.
    • 1937: His last throes splintered it to sparks and gledes. — JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit [Chapter 14 - Fire and Water]
    • 1955: It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede, and my hand was scorched, so that I doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it. — JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring [Book 2, Chapter 2 - The Council of Elrond]

Etymology 2

From Old English glida, akin to Icelandic gleetha/gleea, Swedish glada. Compare glide.

Noun

glede (plural gledes)

  1. Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.

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Dutch

Verb

glede

  1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of glijden

Anagrams


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gleði.

Noun

glede f, m (definite singular gleda or gleden, indefinite plural gleder, definite plural gledene)

  1. happiness, joy, delight, gladness, pleasure

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gleði.

Noun

glede f (definite singular gleda, indefinite plural gleder, definite plural gledene)

  1. happiness, joy, delight, gladness, pleasure

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlêde/
  • Hyphenation: gle‧de

Adverb

glȅde (Cyrillic spelling гле̏де)

  1. (with genitive) as regards, concerning