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glebe

/ɡliːb/US/ɡlib/

glebe noun: turf; soil; ground; sod.

Noun

glebe (plural glebes)

  1. Turf; soil; ground; sod.
    • Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,
      Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  2. (historical) In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
  3. (poetic) A field or meadow.
    • Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 151
  4. A piece of earth containing ore.

Proper noun capitalized: Glebe

Glebe

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

glebe meaning in Bengali

glebe in Bengali

গির্জার ভূসম্পত্তি, চাষের জমি

Forms of glebe

pluralglebes

Origin of glebe

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

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Questions about glebe

What does glebe mean?
Glebe means turf; soil; ground; sod.
What is glebe in Bengali?
Glebe in Bengali is গির্জার ভূসম্পত্তি, চাষের জমি. See Glebe meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is glebe?
Glebe can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce glebe?
Glebe is pronounced /ɡliːb/ (UK).
What is the plural of glebe?
The plural of glebe is glebes.

Words near glebe in the dictionary

  1. gleaves
  2. Gleb
  3. gleba
  4. glebae
  5. glebal
  6. glebe
  7. glebe farm
  8. glebe farms
  9. glebe-farm
  10. glebe-farms
  11. glebe-house

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