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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glee \Glee\ (gl[=e]), n. [OE. gle, gleo, AS. gle['o]w, gle['o],
     akin to Icel. gl[=y]: cf. Gr. ? joke, jest.]
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     1. Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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     2. Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth
        enjoyed at a feast. --Spenser.
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     3. (Mus.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo
        voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  glee
       n 1: great merriment [syn: {hilarity}, {mirth}, {mirthfulness}, {gleefulness}]
       2: malicious satisfaction [syn: {gloat}, {gloating}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "glee":
     Schadenfreude, 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,
     seventh heaven, sunshine, transport, unalloyed happiness, unison
  
  

















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