gleeman

[ glee-muh n ]

/ ˈgli mən /

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noun, plural glee·men.

(in medieval times) an itinerant singer; minstrel.

Nearby words

glee club, gleed, gleeful, gleefully, gleek, gleeman, gleen, gleenie, gleesome, gleesomely, gleet

Origin of gleeman

before 900; Middle English; Old English glēoman. See glee¹, -man

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Examples from the Web for gleeman

The old English names for one of this profession were gleeman, jogeler, and latterly minstrel; not to mention harper, &c.
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume I (of 3)|Thomas Percy
Here the gleeman ceased rowing, and spoke to him in a low tone.
Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune|A. D. Crake
The Anglo-Saxon vocabularies interpret the Latin mimus by glig-mon, a gleeman.
A History of Caricature and Grotesque|Thomas Wright
Then Hagen, too, bethought him of the gleeman, whom bold Hildebrand had robbed of life.
The Nibelungenlied|Unknown

"Methinks I have some remembrance of the lilt," remarked the gleeman, running his fingers over the strings.
The White Company|Arthur Conan Doyle

British Dictionary definitions for gleeman

gleeman

/ (ˈɡliːmən) /

noun plural -men

obsolete a minstrel

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gleeman

noun, plural glee·men.

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Examples from the Web for gleeman

British Dictionary definitions for gleeman

gleeman

noun plural -men