GLEE


Meaning of GLEE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

glee club

hoot with laughter/glee/mirth etc

He had the audience hooting with laughter.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

club

He also sang with gusto in the school glee club , directed by Mildred Cobbledick, one of those favorites.

Then ninety one day with the glee club and remedial arithmetic.

■ VERB

rub

Thousands of people will be rubbing their hands with glee .

I can see the disinfectant manufactures rubbing their hands with glee , confident of selling still stronger-smelling concoctions.

Players' agents and satellite salesmen will be rubbing their hands with glee .

And ace marksman Aldo is rubbing his hands in glee at the prospect.

No doubt the outdoor equipment industry would rub its hands in glee at the thought of such a lucrative threat to its customers.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

I rushed back to Terry, all glee .

The class howled in glee as she spun and screamed and beat at her burning dress.

The doctor was rubbing her hands, probably to warm them, but it looked like a gesture of glee and greed.

Then they went at it with redoubled glee .

There was a general tone of ill-concealed glee in the reporting of this most spectacular flop in the corporation's history.

When you stop and he gets out, young women squeal with glee .

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.