Glebe

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A plot of land belonging or yielding profit to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office.
  • n. Archaic The soil or earth; land.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Turf; soil; ground; sod.
  • n. In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A lump; a clod.
  • n. Turf; soil; ground; sod.
  • n. The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. I. A lump; a mass or concretion.
  • n. In mineralogy, a piece of earth in which is contained some mineral ore.
  • n. Turf; soil; ground; farming-land.
  • n. Now, specifically, the cultivable land belonging to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice. Also glebe-land.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    demesne    land    landed estate    acres    estate   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lump    clod    turf    soil    ground    sod    earth    field   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    spryte    commer    phalanstery    manse    toun    euyl    apses    agen    Orr    trouthe