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noun [ U ] uk / ɡliː / us / ɡliː / Add to word list Add to word list. happiness, excitement, or pleasure: She opened her presents with glee. Synonyms. joy (HAPPINESS) pleasure. Compare. hilarity. mirth literary. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Pleasure and happiness. abandon. afterglow. beatitude. bed of roses idiom. delirium.
Glee definition: open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation.. See examples of GLEE used in a sentence.
The meaning of GLEE is exultant high-spirited joy : merriment. How to use glee in a sentence.
Origin of Glee. From Middle English gle, from Old English glēo, glīġ, glēow, glīw (“glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery”), from Proto-Germanic *glīwą (“joy, mirth”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”).
Glee means extreme happiness or delight. Anything that makes you full of joy, so happy you could laugh out loud, fills you with glee. If your favorite football team wins the Super Bowl, your glee will make you cheer, and a kid let loose with a ten dollar bill in a candy shop might dance around with glee.
uncountable noun [oft with NOUN] Glee is a feeling of happiness and excitement, often caused by someone else's misfortune. His victory was greeted with glee by his fellow American golfers. There was much glee among journalists over the leaked letter. Synonyms: delight, joy, triumph, exuberance More Synonyms of glee.
Meaning of glee in English. glee. noun [ U ] us / ɡliː / uk / ɡliː / Add to word list. happiness, excitement, or pleasure: She opened her presents with glee. Synonyms. joy (HAPPINESS) pleasure. Compare. hilarity. mirth literary. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Pleasure and happiness. abandon. afterglow. beatitude. bed of roses idiom.
