Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glee club \Glee club\ A club or company organized for singing glees, and (by extension) part songs, ballads, etc.
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A high school choir
WordNet
n. a club organized to sing together
Wikipedia
A glee club is a musical group or choir group, historically of male voices but also of female or mixed voices, which traditionally specializes in the singing of short songs— glees—by trios or quartets. In the late 19th century it was very popular in most schools and was made a tradition to have in American high schools from then on. The first named Glee Club was founded in Harrow School, in London, England, in 1787. Glee clubs were very popular in the UK from then until the mid-1850s but by then they were gradually being superseded by choral societies. Glee in this context does not refer to the mood of the music or of its singers, but to a specific form of English part song popular between 1650 and 1900, the glee. But by the mid-20th century, proper glee clubs were no longer common.
The term remains in contemporary use, however, for choirs established in North American colleges, universities, and high schools, although most American glee clubs are choruses in the standard sense, and rarely perform glees.
The Glee Club is a traditional event in the Liberal Assembly and UK Liberal Democrat party conference, consisting of attendees singing around a piano. It is one of the most popular fringe events in British politics and was a formative event in the lives of many British political leaders, allegedly Michael Foot amongst them. Although the Glee Club has informally existed for many years, in 1967 the first songbook (entitled After the Count was Over) was published by the National League of Young Liberals. Songbooks have been produced since the 1975 by Liberator, and in 2009 the 20th edition of the Liberator Songbook was published - the 27th songbook in its publishing history.
It is often combined with the Liberal Revue, a series of sketches consisting mostly of in-jokes and irreverent takes on political matters.
A glee club is a choir which specializes in singing short songs.
Glee Club may also refer to:
- Glee Club (British politics)
- Glee Club (comedy club)
- The Glee Club, Irish band
Usage examples of "glee club".
Somehow, your glee club heard that the Churchmice were being hired to find and take the Shroud.
At first the school had been full of sounds: slamming locker doors, the clackety-clack of Mrs Thomas's typewriter in the office, the slightly off-key choral renditions of the glee club upstairs, the nervous thud-thud-thud of basketballs from the gym and the scrooch and thud of sneakers as players drove toward the baskets or cut turns on the polished wood floor.
Thomas's typewriter in the office, the slightly off-key choral renditions of the glee club upstairs, the nervous thud-thud-thud of basketballs from the gym and the scrooch and thud of sneakers as players drove toward the baskets or cut turns on the polished wood floor.
At lolani he was elected president of his class and sang in the glee club.
Carol singers will be supplied by the Sanitation Department Glee Club.
He hated all of them, and now he was here, alone, with a stranger who had been in the glee club at Princeton, but he already liked him.
Tharpe, Pular Singe the tracker, and the generous assistance of the Morley Dotes glee club and bone-breaking society.
Hildagarde Boothbuthle, who immediately began to yelp in the contralto that was the pride of the Powhattan University Glee Club.
The Baltimore Glee Club intoned a hymn especially written for the occasion.