glebe

[ gleeb ]
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noun
  1. Also called glebe land .Chiefly British. the cultivable land owned by a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.

  2. Archaic. soil; field.

Origin of glebe

1
1275–1325; Middle English <Latin glēba, glaeba clod of earth

Other words from glebe

  • glebeless, adjective

Words Nearby glebe

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How to use glebe in a sentence

  • And, of all the yokes, is not that of the glebe the heaviest, which forbids them to cross the boundaries of their own seigniory.

  • When the Church will say to those myriads of people, chained down to the glebe: 'Go!

  • Another note was sent to the glebe, requesting the Rector to come to breakfast and to look at the hounds being thrown off.

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys | Anthony Trollope
  • On the following day, very soon after three, she pushed the bell outside Garstin's studio door in glebe Place.

    December Love | Robert Hichens
  • Nevertheless he was decidedly curious about the good-looking stranger who had been seen in glebe Place.

    December Love | Robert Hichens

British Dictionary definitions for glebe

glebe

/ (ɡliːb) /


noun
  1. British land granted to a clergyman as part of his benefice

  2. poetic land, esp when regarded as the source of growing things

Origin of glebe

1
C14: from Latin glaeba

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