glede

• IPA^(key): /ɡliːd/
• Rhymes: -iːd

From Old English glēd. More at gleed.

• gleed

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]

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

glede (plural gledes)

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

• degel, edgel, gleed, ledge, leged

glede

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of glijden

• gelde, gleed, legde

From Old Norse gleði.

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

1. happiness, joy, delight, gladness, pleasure

• “glede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse gleði.

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

1. happiness, joy, delight, gladness, pleasure

• “glede” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

glȅde (Cyrillic spelling гле̏де)

1. (with genitive) as regards, concerning