GLEE

hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness, glee, gleefulness

(noun) great merriment

gloat, gloating, glee

(noun) malicious satisfaction

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

glee (countable and uncountable, plural glees)

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

Synonyms: merriment, mirth, gaiety, gloat

(uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.

(music, countable) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.

Verb

glee (third-person singular simple present glees, present participle gleeing, simple past and past participle gleed)

To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

Anagrams

• Egle, Lege, lege

Source: Wiktionary


Glee, n. Etym: [OE. gle, gleo, AS. gleów, gleó, akin to Icel. gl: cf. Gr.

1. Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast. Spenser.

3. (Mus.)

Definition: An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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