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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Jubilant delight; joy.
  2. n. Music A part song scored for three or more usually male and unaccompanied voices that was popular in the 18th century.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Exultant or playful exhilaration; demonstrative joy or delight; merriment; mirth; gaiety.
  2. n. Music; minstrelsy. See gleeman.
  3. n. A musical instrument.
  4. n. In music, a composition for three or more solo voices, without accompaniment, usually in two or three contrasted movements, and adapted to any kind of metrical text, not necessarily joyful. The structure of a glee is seldom truly contrapuntal, but considerable independence of the parts is essential; the former characteristic distinguishes it from the madrigal, the latter from the part-song. The glee is essentially of English origin and cultivation, and its best period was from 1760 to 1830. Synonyms Joy, Joviality, etc. (see hilarity)', exhilaration, jollity, jocularity, sportiveness.
  5. See gley.

Wiktionary

  1. n. uncountable Joy; merriment; mirth; gaiety; particularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.
  2. n. uncountable Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
  3. n. music, countable An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
  2. n. Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.
  3. n. (Mus.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. great merriment
  2. n. malicious satisfaction

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English gle, from Old English glēo, glīġ, glēow, glīw ("glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery"), from Proto-Germanic *glīwan (“joy, mirth”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”). Cognate with Scots gle, glie, glew ("game, play, sport, mirth, joy, rejoicing, entertainment, melody, music"), Old Norse glȳ ("joy, glee, gladness"), Ancient Greek χλεύη (chleúē, "joke, jest, scorn"). A poetic word in Middle English, the word was obsolete by 1500, but revived late 18c. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English gle, entertainment, from Old English glēo; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. music
  1. minstrelsy
  1. entertainment
  1. joy
  1. merriment
  1. mirth
  1. gayety

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. gaiety
  1. merriment
  1. satisfaction

same context (15)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. mirth
  2. exultation
  3. laughter
  1. eagerness
  2. delight
  3. amusement
  1. gaiety
  2. gladness
  3. astonishment
  1. fury
  2. hilarity
  3. impatience
  1. rapture
  2. anticipation
  3. anguish

rhymes (289)

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  10. referee
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  24. sightsee
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  55. ye
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  57. yi
  1. yippee
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reverse dictionary (23)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. madrigal
  2. gle
  3. gleek
  4. hilarity
  1. part song
  2. allegresse
  3. liederkranz
  4. liedertafel
  1. glum
  2. grin
  3. symposiac
  4. beside
  1. rub
  2. wassail
  3. exhilaration
  4. flash
  1. gaiety
  2. hold
  3. joviality
  4. joy
  1. riotous
  2. song
  3. ballet

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  • uselessness From The Ladykillers:
    "This is perfect. This is more than perfect. I can scarcely contain my glee." Dec 7, 2007

  • sonofgroucho It is a feelgood word. Dec 5, 2007

  • rolig Simply saying "glee" makes me feel gleeful. Dec 5, 2007

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