glee club
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4.1
- noun
- /ɡliː klʌb/
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coro
- He was president of the Harvard Glee Club and wrote music for the Hasty Pudding Club.
- school glee club
- high school glee club
- join the glee club
And at vocal we had the male Glee club, had the chorus.
- And at vocal we had the male Glee club, had the chorus.
- And so he hires a prostitute that ends up being an old member of the Glee club from years before.
Examples
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On Wednesdays, after glee club, he'd drive me and my best friend home from school.
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Mr. Schuester (Matthew Morrison) tells a very distraught glee club that he will be leaving McKinley High at the end of the week to help out the arts, but will be back after Sectionals.
Blog text (25) -
The glee club has a new number.
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"I joined a glee club," she said.
Fiction book (1998) -
Our glee club's been chosen to compete in a national competition.
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He was in the glee club.
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Attention students, there'll be a meeting today for all members of the glee club.
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Rachel and Kurt pay a visit to Lima as the glee club launches its production of "Grease."
Blog text (17) -
It's time for Sectionals, and New Directions receives guidance from some of the recent McKinley graduates who volunteer to mentor the glee club during their Thanksgiving breaks.
Blog text (17) -
The glee club performed beautifully at the charity concert last night.
Synonyms
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1.5
A group of singers who perform together often at church
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2.6
A group of people who sing together in a play or concert
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2.3
People who play music together for a crowd
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Combining 'glee' (joyful delight) with 'club' (an association) yields the idea of a group formed for enjoyment, but it does not explicitly signal that the activity is singing. The specific choral/singing sense relies on the less transparent, somewhat archaic musical meaning of 'glee', which a B1 learner who only knows 'glee' as 'joy' is unlikely to infer, so partial but not full transparency applies.
Etymology
Glee club comes from older times when people met to sing short happy songs called 'glees' and the word club meant a small social group. That's why glee club now means a group who sings together for fun or at shows.