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

“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

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

Ms. Turner played on the basketball team at Carver High School in the 1950s and pushed the glee club to a first-place trophy.

From New York Times • May 29, 2023

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

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