different between glede vs glee

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Etymology 1

From Old English gl?d. More at gleed.

Alternative forms

• gleed

Noun

glede (plural gledes)

1. A live coal, an ember or molten metallic bead such that skids or slides across a cooler surface.
   • 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 gleða, Swedish glada. Compare glide.

Noun

glede (plural gledes)

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

Translations

Anagrams

• degel, edgel, gleed, ledge, leged

Dutch

Verb

glede

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of glijden

Anagrams

• gelde, gleed, legde

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.

Noun

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

1. happiness, joy, delight, gladness, pleasure

References

• “glede” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lêde/
• Hyphenation: gle?de

Adverb

gl?de (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (with genitive) as regards, concerning

English

Etymology

From Middle English gle, from Old English gl?o, gl??, gl?ow, gl?w (“glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery”), from Proto-Germanic *gl?w? (“joy, mirth”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?lew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”). Cognate with Scots gle, glie, glew (“game, play, sport, mirth, joy, rejoicing, entertainment, melody, music”), Old Norse gl? (“joy, glee, gladness”), Ancient Greek ????? (khleú?, “joke, jest, scorn”). A poetic word in Middle English, the word was obsolete by 1500, but revived late 18c.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gl?, IPA^(key): /?li?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

glee (countable and uncountable, plural glees)

1. (uncountable) Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.

   Synonyms: merriment, mirth, gaiety, gloat
2. (uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
3. (music, countable) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

glee (third-person singular simple present glees, present participle gleeing, simple past and past participle gleed)

1. To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

Anagrams

• Egle, Lege, lege

Limburgish

Noun

glee f

1. something that is wet because it has been pasted together

Inflection

• Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.

See also

• èpperglieëdjómme

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German klein, kleine, from Old High German kleini, from Proto-Germanic *klainiz (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleh?y- (“to cleave, stick”). Compare German klein, Dutch klein.

Adjective

glee

1. small