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- Dictionaryglee/ɡliː/
noun
- 1. great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or another's misfortune: "his face lit up with impish glee"
- 2. a song for men's voices in three or more parts, usually unaccompanied, of a type popular especially c. 1750–1830.
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The meaning of GLEE is exultant high-spirited joy : merriment. How to use glee in a sentence.
happiness, excitement, or pleasure: She opened her presents with glee. Synonyms. joy (HAPPINESS) pleasure. Compare. hilarity. mirth literary. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Pleasure and happiness. abandon. afterglow. beatitude. bed of roses idiom. delirium. exaltation. exultancy. exultation. feast. felicity. for fun phrase. fulfilment
noun. open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation. Synonyms: gaiety, joviality, mirth, hilarity, jollity, merriment. an unaccompanied part song for three or more voices, popular especially in the 18th century. glee.
noun [ U ] us / ɡliː / uk / ɡliː / Add to word list. happiness, excitement, or pleasure: She opened her presents with glee. Synonyms. joy (HAPPINESS) pleasure. Compare. hilarity. mirth literary. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Pleasure and happiness. abandon. afterglow. beatitude. bed of roses idiom. delirium. exaltation. exultancy.
1. great merriment or delight, often caused by someone else's misfortune. 2. (Music, other) a type of song originating in 18th-century England, sung by three or more unaccompanied voices. Compare madrigal 1. [Old English gléo; related to Old Norse glӯ]
Glee is a feeling of happiness and excitement, often caused by someone else's misfortune. His victory was greeted with glee by his fellow American golfers. There was much glee among journalists over the leaked letter.
Glee means extreme happiness or delight. Anything that makes you full of joy, so happy you could laugh out loud, fills you with glee. If your favorite football team wins the Super Bowl, your glee will make you cheer, and a kid let loose with a ten dollar bill in a candy shop might dance around with glee.
a feeling of happiness, usually because something good has happened to you, or something bad has happened to somebody else synonym delight. He rubbed his hands in glee as he thought of all the money he would make. glee at something She couldn't disguise her glee at their embarrassment. Topics Feelings c2. Word Origin. Want to learn more?
GLEE definition: a feeling of great happiness, usually because of your good luck or someone else's bad luck: . Learn more.
From Middle English gle, from Old English glēo, glīġ, glēow, glīw (“glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery”), from Proto-Germanic *glīwą (“joy, mirth”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”).
