glee

Speech parts

1. glee - Noun

2. glee - Verb

Meaning

Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

mirth rapture pleasure happiness joy delight amusement cheer ecstasy gratification exuberance elation jubilation exhilaration merriment
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Antonyms

rue fury blues depression abyss heartache
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Hypernyms

satisfaction gaiety merriment

Phrases with the word

malicious glee in glee club glee gum being in high glee

Anagrams

lege Egle

Examples

We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt. Ogden Nash

One man, he disappoint me; He give me the gouge and he take my glee. Now every other man I see Remind me of the one man who disappoint me. Fiona Apple

If a man be subject to the authority of another, he can at least ask that it not be an occasion for glee. John Kenneth Galbraith

So many, and so many, and such glee. John Keats

He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace. Lois Lowry

Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee. C. C. H. Pounder

Close letter words and terms

Gleditsia Gleditsia aquatica Gleditsia triacanthos glee club glee gum glee-beam