1
: exultant high-spirited joy : merriment
dancing with glee
2
: a part-song for usually male voices
Examples of glee in a Sentence
They were dancing with glee.
He could hardly contain his glee over his victory.
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 10 Sep. 2025
Watching the actors sign language through glee, heartache, torment and even betrayal makes for some stunning scene work.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
The late Tom Wolfe, rubbing his hands with glee and spilling lemonade on his white suit, would be delighted that tradition has now taken its revenge on stuffy Bauhaus Europeanism, and maybe rightly so.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Or wait, is that an actual expression of glee?
—Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for glee
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“Glee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glee. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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glee
noun1
: high-spirited joy
2
: an unaccompanied song for three or more voices
gleeful
adjective
-fəl
gleefully
adverb
-fə-lē
gleefulness
noun
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