glebe.

1. Land assigned to support a parish priest or another ecclesiastical office through its income or produce.

2. Soil or earth, especially as cultivated ground in poetic usage.

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Words that belong together

• glebe land
• the parish glebe

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The glebe extended beyond the garden to the lower pasture.

The sale of the glebe altered the parish’s finances more than the ruined roof had done.

Usage notes

Primary category: gothic. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural glebes for distinct holdings. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.