| Pronunciation: | | glee
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- [n] great merriment
- [n] malicious satisfaction
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| | Synonyms: | | gleefulness, gloat, gloating, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness |
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| | See Also: | | gaiety, merriment, satisfaction |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Glee\ (gl[=e]), n. [OE. gle, gleo, AS. gle['o]w, gle['o],
akin to Icel. gl[=y]: cf. Gr. chley`n joke, jest.]
1. Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
2. Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth
enjoyed at a feast. --Spenser.
3. (Mus.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo
voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.
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| | Related Terms: | | amusement, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, blitheness, cantata, cheer, cheerfulness, choral singing, chorus, cloud nine, delectation, delight, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, frivolity, fun, gaiety, gladness, gleefulness, good spirits, happiness, heaven, high glee, high spirits, hilariousness, hilarity, intoxication, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyance, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, laughter, levity, madrigal, madrigaletto, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness, oratorio, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, pleasure, rapture, ravishment, satisfaction, Schadenfreude, seventh heaven, sunshine, transport, unalloyed happiness, unison |
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