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

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

In David Spade’s comedy “Dickie Roberts, Former Child Star,” Mr. Dow sang in the front row of a glee club of former child stars.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 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

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