Associations to the word «Glebe»

Wiktionary

GLEBE, noun. Turf; soil; ground; sod.
GLEBE, noun. (historical) In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.

Dictionary definition

GLEBE, noun. Plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope