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5-letter words (3 found)

GLEDE,GLEED,LEDGE,

4-letter words (8 found)

DELE,EDGE,GEED,GELD,GLED,GLEE,LEDE,LEED,

3-letter words (11 found)

DEE,DEG,DEL,EEL,ELD,GED,GEE,GEL,LED,LEE,LEG,

2-letter words (4 found)

DE,ED,EE,EL,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 27 words from glede according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of glede

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Definitions and meaning of glede

glede

Alternative forms

  • gled

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡliːd/
  • Rhymes: -iːd

Etymology 1

From Middle English glede, from Old English glida, from Proto-West Germanic *glidā, from Proto-Germanic *glidǭ; akin to Icelandic gleða, Swedish glada. Compare glide.

Noun

glede (plural gledes)

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

Etymology 2

From Middle English gleede, glede, from Old English glēd, glēde (“glowing coal, ember, fire, flame, instrument of torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *glōdi, from Proto-Germanic *glōdiz (“incandescence, glowing ember, burning ash”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to shine”). Cognate with Scots gleed (“burning coal, ember”), Saterland Frisian Gloud (“blaze, fire”), Dutch gloed (“glowing heat”), German Glut (“glowing heat, embers”), Swedish glöd (“embers”), Scots glude (“glow from a fire”). More at glow.

Alternative forms

  • glead, gleed

Noun

glede (plural gledes)

  1. A live coal; an ember.
    • 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit [Chapter 14 - Fire and Water],
      His last throes splintered it to sparks and gledes.
    • 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring [Book 2, Chapter 2 - The Council of Elrond],
      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.

Anagrams

  • degel, edgel, gleed, ledge, leged

Dutch

Verb

glede

  1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of glijden

Anagrams

  • gelde, gleed, legde

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English glida, from Proto-West Germanic *glidā, from Proto-Germanic *glidǭ; related to gliden. Forms with /ɛ/ are possibly either from an Old English variant *gleoda or due to the influence of Old Norse gleða.

Alternative forms

  • glide

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡleːd(ə)/, /ˈɡlid(ə)/, /ˈɡlɛd(ə)/

Noun

glede (plural gledes)

  1. kite (bird of prey)
    Synonym: kyte
Descendants
  • English: glede, glead
  • Scots: gled
References
  • “glēde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English glēd, from Proto-West Germanic *glōdi, from Proto-Germanic *glōdiz; the final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique cases.

Alternative forms

  • gleede

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡleːd(ə)/

Noun

glede (plural gledes or gleden)

  1. A live coal; an ember
  2. (by extension) A fire; flames.
  3. (figuratively, rare) A strong feeling.
Descendants
  • English: glede, glead, gleed
  • Scots: gleed, gleid
References
  • “glēde, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gleði.

Noun

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

  1. happiness, joy, delight, gladness, pleasure

References

  • “glede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gleði.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²ɡleː(d)ə/

Noun

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

  1. happiness, joy, delight, gladness, pleasure

Related terms

  • gle
  • gledeleg

References

  • “glede” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

glȅde (Cyrillic spelling гле̏де)

  1. as regards, concerning [+genitive]

Source: wiktionary.org