Glee

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
glee
    n 1: great merriment [syn: {hilarity}, {mirth}, {mirthfulness},
         {glee}, {gleefulness}]
    2: malicious satisfaction [syn: {gloat}, {gloating}, {glee}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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