glebe
pronunciation
How to pronounce glebe in British English:
UK [gli:b]
How to pronounce glebe in American English:
US [ɡlib]
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- Noun:
- plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office
Word Origin
- glebe
- glebe: see globe
- glebe (n.)
- late 14c., "soil of the earth; cultivated land;" also "a piece of land forming part of a clergyman's benefice," from Old French glebe, from Latin gleba, glaeba "clod, lump of earth," from PIE *glebh- "to roll into a ball" (cognates: Latin globus "sphere;" Old English clyppan "to embrace;" Lithuanian glebys "armful," globti "to embrace, support").
Example
- 1. Waterfront glebe creek cove brick colonial .
- 2. Glebe market is our playground .
- 3. The influence to trace elements contents in the soil environment in salt-alkaline wasteland reclamation and cultivation course , tianjin ( glebe )
- 4. Ah q is a poor man that has no shelter , no glebe , and has no family , living in tutelary god 's temple ; also does not have steady jobs .
- 5. The article indicates that there are three theoretical frames on environmental problems , i.e. the externality and social welfare , tragedy of public glebe and environmental property right , model of substance conservation and the sustainable development plan .