/ɡliːb/, /ɡlib/
OriginFrom Old French glebe, from Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”). Doublet of gleba.
- 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”
- historicalIn medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
- poeticA field or meadow.
“Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.”
- A piece of earth containing ore.
- A suburb of Sydney in the Sydney council area, New South Wales, Australia.
- A suburb of the City of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Formsglebes(plural)