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Synonyms

glee club

American  

noun

  1. a chorus organized for singing choral music.


glee club British  

noun

  1. a club or society organized for the singing of choral music

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of glee club

First recorded in 1805–15


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“Like, I really taught ‘First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ to my junior high school girls’ glee club to get their attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025

But in Power 5 leagues like the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference, football is a billion-dollar business that looks more like the NFL than the glee club or other extracurricular activities on campus.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

After she performed her first original song onstage with her high school glee club, she and her mother moved to Nashville when she was 15.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

Her new album “Star-Crossed” is filled with expensive-sounding pop songs sung flat and plain — no florid residue of a try-hard voice forged in show choir, glee club or a televised singing contest.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021

I heard the girls’ glee club I used to sing in, way off from the other side of camp, their tiny grade-school sopranos singing, “Beauti-ful dreamer, wake unto me.”

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

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