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

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  • Dawna used an open hand to hold the cigarette, hiding her expression, in case any of her glee was visible. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • Dalamar stood on a foggy plain howling with glee, and his voice was the song of the wind wailing wild in the treetops, the high canopy of the Forest of Wayreth. —  Dalamar the Dark
  • "Look!" he exclaimed with glee, as Karal dropped his final snowball without throwing it to squint in the direction he indicated. —  Storm Breaking
  • When Elizabeth succumbs to flattery or toys with seductions, her glee is at least as shocking as her ice-queen imperiousness.
  • They danced about in glee, and played -catch" in the water. —  The Secret of Spiggy Holes
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English gle, entertainment, from Old English glēo; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English glee, gle, gleo, gleu, glew, glu, etc., from Anglo-Saxon gleó, contr. of gleow, umlaut form of gliw (in oblique cases and in comp. also glig-), joy, mirth, always implying and practically equivalent to ‘music’ (singing or playing), = Icelandic gly¯, glee, gladness (cf. gly¯ja be gleeful), = Swedish dial, gly, mockery, ridicule. Cf. (?) (Greek χλεύη jest, a joke, Russian glumŭ, a jest, a joke.
 

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