glebe

See also: glebę and glèbe

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

enPR: glēb, IPA^(key): /ɡliːb/

Noun

glebe (plural glebes)

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
(historical) In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
(archaic) A meadow, land or fields
(mining) A piece of earth containing ore.

Usage notes

A number of places are named Glebe.

Derived terms

Translations

turf

Bulgarian: земя (bg) f (zemja), почва (bg) f (počva)

Russian: дёрн (ru) (djorn)

area of land belonging to a parish

Bulgarian: църковна земя f (cǎrkovna zemja)

Greek: βακούφι (el) n (vakoúfi), μετόχι (el) n (metóchi)

Italian

Noun

glebe f

plural of gleba

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