glee club

American  

noun

1. a chorus organized for singing choral music.

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glee club British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of glee club

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

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glee club

Or, Dartmouth could stop treating the players like employees and downgrade the teams to club status, like the glee club and the other self-funded student organizations that look more like hobbies than jobs.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

Right now, Michele said, she is focused on what’s in front of her: inhabiting the role, and this time, doing it as a wife and mother rather than a fame-hungry former glee club captain.

From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2022

Disloyalty, in the form of joining the glee club, is sedition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2021

I think of what I knew of the world at their age, with my good grades and my glee club practice, and I realize that I knew nothing.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2020

First there’d be regular church, then a program, then a glee club competition, then another sermon, then different choirs would sing.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose