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glee

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5
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7
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4
Pronunciation
/ɡliː/

Definition of glee

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

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

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

verb

  1. To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

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Etymology

From Middle English gle, from Old English glēo, glīġ, glēow, glīw (“glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery”), from Proto-West Germanic *glīw, from Proto-Germanic *glīwą (“joy, mirth”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew-…

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From Middle English gle, from Old English glēo, glīġ, glēow, glīw (“glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery”), from Proto-West Germanic *glīw, from Proto-Germanic *glīwą (“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”), Icelandic glý (“joy, glee, gladness”), Ancient Greek χλεύη (khleúē, “joke, jest, scorn”). A poetic word in Middle English, the word was obsolete by 1500, but revived late 18c.

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