glee

Other forms of glee

plural

glees·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about glee

What does glee mean?

glee means "great merriment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in glee?

glee has 1 syllable: glee. In IPA it is /ˈɡli/.

What is another word for glee?

Close synonyms include hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness, gleefulness, gloat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glee a common word?

glee is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.