gleecraft

G2L1E1E1C3R1A1F4T1

noun

Music; the art of music.

OriginMiddle English gleocræft ← Old English glēocræft →
Scrabble 15
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

noungleecraft (uncountable)
  1. uncountableMusic; the art of music.

    This could be revived in the form gleecraft.

    1910, Poet lore, volume 21, page 251
    3 more examples

    Other things earthen, as they fade and crumble, Sing deathsongs in the minor key of gleecraft.

    1898, William Marshall, Aarbert

    It was the outshapen uptippening of a bad tide; but some folk are wont to forsend all deemstery of gleecraft as inwoning.

    1948, New Statesman: the week-end review

    Your heart sang with his gleecraft, words wondrously wrought, kennings keen with knowing.

    1995, Staszek, Three-hand jax & other spells

Origin

  1. Old Englishglēocræft
  2. Middle Englishgleocræft
  3. Englishgleecraft

From Middle English gleocræft, from Old English glēocræft, glīwcræft (“music, art of music, minstrelsy”), equivalent to glee + -craft.

More words from Middle English, Old English

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

gleecraft. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gleecraft

MLA

“gleecraft.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gleecraft. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gleecraft,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gleecraft.

Source: gleecraft on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.