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glee
CEFRC1
/ɡliː/
noun · verb
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In plain English
- 01
noun
Great happiness and excitement.
- 02
noun
Extra detailAn unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
Examples
Are you going to join the glee club?
I'm a member of the glee club.
At a glance
Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 3
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsMusic; minstrelsy; entertainment.
Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
verb
Extra meaningTo sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).
More examples
In contextWho's your favorite character on Glee?
I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the gods they made.
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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Origin
noun
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.