Refine this word faster

Stronger alternatives Opposite tone Use in context Cross-language nuance

Glebe

//ɡliːb// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A suburb of Sydney in the Sydney council area, New South Wales, Australia.
  2. 2
    A suburb of the City of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    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"

  2. 2
    plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office wordnet
  3. 3
    In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses. historical
  4. 4
    A field or meadow. poetic

    "Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold."

  5. 5
    A piece of earth containing ore.

Etymology

From Old French glebe, from Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”). Doublet of gleba.

See also for "glebe"

Synonyms Antonyms Rhymes Sentences Translate Word Type Pronunciation Word Forms

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciation

Mini challenge

Unscramble this word: glebe