glees
/ɡliːz/
glees is the plural of glee.
Meaning of glee
Noun
glee (countable and uncountable, plural glees)
- Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
- I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the gods they made.1968, “Sympathy for the Devil”, in The Rolling Stones (music), Beggars Banquet
- Synonyms:
- merriment, mirth, gaiety, gloat, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, cheeriness, contentness, contentedness
- Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
- An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
- Sometimes they had glees, when Captain Strong’s chest was of vast service, and he boomed out in a prodigious bass, of which he was not a little proud.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
Words that rhyme with glees
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- wheeze
- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
Questions about glees
- What is glees the plural of?
- Glees is the plural of glee.
- How do you pronounce glees?
- Glees is pronounced /ɡliːz/.
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