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

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 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