Glee

/ɡliː/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
2. (uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
3. (singing, countable) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
4. To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

Example Sentences

I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the gods they made.

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

Sometimes they had glees, when Captain Strong’s chest was of vast service, and he boomed out in a prodigious bass, of which he was not a little proud.

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Word Forms

• glees
• gleeing
• gleed

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