Definitions for gladden

gladden glad·den

Spelling: [glad-n]
IPA: /ˈglæd n/

Gladden is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 157 anagrams from letters in gladden (addegln).

Definitions for gladden

verb (used with object)

  1. to make glad.

verb (used without object)

  1. Obsolete. to be glad.

Origin of gladden

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at glad1, -en1

Examples for gladden

Reflect that you may gladden and beautify your lives, or embitter them, according as you now act.

gladden your souls, ye mistresses, with sense of error bann'd.

Had he not said that she was made to gladden the heart of those on whom her glance did rest?

Ah, it was indeed a scene to gladden the heart of the father of one of them!

What gladdened her before did not gladden her now, and what had once been a joy was now a sorrow.

You were made to gladden some woman's eye and fill her heart.

It was she whom all this honour and distinction were to gladden; the joy and profit were for her.

And still more of this belated spring will gladden the eye in the florist's window.

Bearing to the neighboring town, fuel that gladden'd the hearth-stone.

Every evening I heard him, but no sight came to gladden my eyes.

Word Value for gladden
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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