glee

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 glē

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune. uncountable
    — I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the gods they made.
  2. Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. uncountable
  3. An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry. countable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

词形变化

glees plural glees present,singular,third-person gleeing participle,present gleed participle,past gleed past

词汇关系

衍生词
glee-beam glee club gleecraft gleeful gleefully gleefulness gleeish gleek gleeless gleemaiden gleeman gleesome gleewoman

词源

词源 1
From Middle English gle, from Old English glēo, glīġ, glēow, glīw (“glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery”), from Proto-West Germanic *glīw, from Proto-Germanic *glīwą (“joy, mirth”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”).
Cognate with Scots gle, glie, glew (“game, play, sport, mirth, joy, rejoicing, entertainment, melody, music”), Icelandic glý (“joy, glee, gladness”), Ancient Greek χλεύη (khleúē, “joke, jest, scorn”). A poetic word in Middle English, the word was obsolete by 1500, but revived late 18c.
词源 2
From Middle English gleen, glewen, from Old English glēowian (“to sing, play an instrument, jest”), from Proto-West Germanic *glīwōn, from Proto-Germanic *glīwōną. Cognate with Icelandic glýja (“to be gleeful”).
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