glebe means A suburb of Sydney in the Sydney council area, New South Wales, Australia. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
glebe is pronounced /ɡliːb/.
name
- A suburb of Sydney in the Sydney council area, New South Wales, Australia.
- A suburb of the City of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
noun
- 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”
- In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
- A field or meadow.“Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.”
- A piece of earth containing ore.