glebe
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
/ɡliːb/
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/ɡliːb/ · /ɡlib/
Definition of glebe
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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Turf; soil; ground; sod.
“1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke”
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noun
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Turf; soil; ground; sod.
“1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke”
- (historical)In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
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(poetic)A field or meadow.
“Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.”
- A piece of earth containing ore.
name
- A suburb of Sydney in the Sydney council area, New South Wales, Australia.
- A suburb of the City of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Old French glebe, from Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”). Doublet of gleba.
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