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glee

1

[ glee ]

noun

  1. open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation.

    Synonyms: gaiety, joviality, mirth, hilarity, jollity, merriment

  2. an unaccompanied part song for three or more voices, popular especially in the 18th century.


glee

2

[ glee ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to squint or look with one eye.

noun

  1. a squint.
  2. an imperfect eye, especially one with a cast.

glee

/ ɡliː /

noun

  1. great merriment or delight, often caused by someone else's misfortune
  2. a type of song originating in 18th-century England, sung by three or more unaccompanied voices Compare madrigal


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Word History and Origins

Origin of glee1

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English glēo; cognate with Old Norse glȳ; akin to glow

Origin of glee2

1250–1300; Middle English glien, gleen; perhaps < Scandinavian; compare Old Norse gljā to shine

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Word History and Origins

Origin of glee1

Old English gléo; related to Old Norse glӯ

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Synonym Study

See mirth.

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Example Sentences

It happened on Glee and in Sex and The City, and now in Japan women can marry themselves.

But then the summit gives way to the other side of the hill, and a childlike glee arises from the whooooosh of the descent.

And just last May Glee aired “Old Dog, New Trick,” the first episode scripted by Colfer.

A shriek of glee briefly broke out across the Web as inquiring minds tried to deduce who was the lucky lady.

She actively, and with glee, imbued their lives with an abundance of misery.

The moon seemed to smile on him; the aurora appeared to dance with unwonted vigour, as if in glee; the very stars winked at him!

So when Yung Pak's father made him a present of a monkey—a real monkey—alive—he just danced with glee.

Sometimes Yung Pak would be the winner, and then he would march home with great glee and show the trophy to his father.

Georgie handed the paper to her cousin, the latter clapped her hands with glee.

Allcraft, with his brain on fire, received the visit of this man with secret glee.

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