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glebe

 (glēb)
n.
1. A plot of land belonging or yielding profit to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office.
2. Archaic The soil or earth; land.

[Latin glēba, clod.]
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glebe

(ɡliːb)
n
1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) Brit land granted to a clergyman as part of his benefice
2. poetic land, esp when regarded as the source of growing things
[C14: from Latin glaeba]
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glebe

(glib)

n.
1. Also called glebe′ land`. the cultivable land owned by a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
2. Archaic. soil; field.
[1275–1325; Middle English < Latin glēba, glaeba clod of earth]
glebe′less, adj.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.glebe - plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical officeglebe - plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office
acres, demesne, landed estate, estate, land - extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
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Translations

glebe

[gliːb] Nterreno m beneficial
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glebe

n (Eccl) → Pfarrland nt; glebe housepfarreieigenes Haus; (= vicarage)Pfarrhaus nt
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References in classic literature ?
The Great North Road should have been bordered all its length with glebe. Henry's kind had filched most of it.
But so little interest had be taken in the matter, that he owed all his knowledge of the house, garden, and glebe, extent of the parish, condition of the land, and rate of the tithes, to Elinor herself, who had heard so much of it from Colonel Brandon, and heard it with so much attention, as to be entirely mistress of the subject.
Fertil of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine; With herds the pasture thronged, with flocks the hills; Huge cities and high-towered, that well might seem The seats of mightiest monarchs; and so large The prospect was that here and there was room For barren desert, fountainless and dry.
But presently Dent brings up a poor fellow who has killed a hare, and when I've got through my 'justicing,' as Carroll calls it, I'm inclined for a ride round the glebe, and on my way back I meet with the master of the workhouse, who has got a long story of a mutinous pauper to tell me; and so the day goes on, and I'm always the same lazy fellow before evening sets in.
1-11) `There is a land Ellopia with much glebe and rich meadows, and rich in flocks and shambling kine.
It should have been seen with what eagerness the marshy glebes of Holland were turned over.
Stephen Brown, a shopkeeper in Glebe Farm, said: "Several successful Asbos were granted against known trouble-makers in the area and since then we have noticed a big difference." n Mr Hanson also praised Birmingham for being the "safest city" in the UK as people dropped in to speak to West Midlands Police and Fire Service, Birmingham Anti-Social Behaviour Unit, Birmingham Drug and Alcohol Action Team and the Birmingham Road Safety Partnership.
It happened at 6.30pm on Sunday at Jean's Place Lifestyle and Express Store, on Glebe Road, Forest Hall, North Tyneside.
Top price steer was a top quality Belgian Blue steer from Rochester & Murray, Glebe Farm which realised pounds 680.
The Seasiders were coming into their game against Glebe Rangers on the back of the disappointment of being knocked out of the Intermediate Cup by Mid-Ulster side Windmill Stars.
Glebe Primary, in Norton, is taking part in the Send My Friend to School Global Campaign for Education.
Seven louts were banned from huge swathes of Stechford's Glebe Farm after courts heard about their year-long reign of terror.