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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What followed was, fittingly, pure glee.
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Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2025
Brianna Randall My daughter dropped her backpack and ran straight into the clear mountain lake, whooping with glee.
—Brianna Randall, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
What followed was, fittingly, pure glee.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 13 Sep. 2025
That feeling of getting glee from seeing other people get their comeuppance.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 12 Sep. 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 22 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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