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# glee

«glee» in Mova's school dictionary: **great joy and happiness, often shown loudly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Glee is great joy and happiness, often shown loudly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glee/#m1)

2) A glee-club is a group of people who sing together for fun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glee/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories children shout with glee when they win or get a treat; in school a «glee-club» is a singing group

### examples

- They shouted and hooted with great glee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glee/#x1)
- Hurrah for a workman's life of glee! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glee/#x2)
- The children clapped with glee when the bell rang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glee/#x3)
- Our glee-club sings on Friday evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glee/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glee» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glee/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.