glee /ɡliː/noun 3verb 1forms 3 noun3 •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 •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 verb1 •To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song). formsgleed · gleeing · glees