glee

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• enPR: glē, IPA: /ɡliː/, SAMPA: /gli:/
• Rhymes: -iː

Etymology

Middle English gle from Old English glēo, akin to Old Norse glȳ. A poetic word in Middle English, the word was obsolete by 1500, but revived late 18c.

Noun

glee (countable and uncountable; plural glees)

1. (uncountable) Joy; merriment; mirth; gaiety; particularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.
   • 1968, The Rolling Stones, “Sympathy for the Devil” (song), in Beggars Banquet (album): 

     I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the gods they made.

2. (uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
3. (music, countable) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.

Translations

Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; particularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast

Arabic: بهجة (ar) (bahja) f. Catalan: alegria (ca) f., joia (ca) f. Dutch: vrolijkheid (nl) Finnish: ilo (fi), riemu (fi) French: joie (fr) f. German: Freude (de) f., Fröhlichkeit (de) f.

Italian: gioia (it) f. Norwegian: glede (no) m. Persian: شادی (fa) Portuguese: alegria (pt) Spanish: alegría (es) f. Swedish: glädje (sv) c., fröjd (sv) c., munterhet (sv) c.

Music; minstrelsy; entertainment

German: Rundgesang (de) m.

Portuguese: música (pt), canção (pt)

An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices

German: Rundgesang (de) m.

Anagrams

• lege

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Limburgish

Noun

glee f.

1. something that is wet because of it has been pasted together

Inflection

Inflection

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	glee	gleeër	gleeke	gleekes
Genitive	glee	gleeër	gleekes	gleekes
Locative	glöj	glöjjer	glöjke	glöjkes
Dative¹	glöje	gleeër	?	?
Accusative¹	glee	gleeërn	gleeke	gleekes

• Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.

See also

• èpperglieëdjómme