GLEBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glebe mean? 

• GLEBE (noun)
  The noun GLEBE has 1 sense:

1. plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office

  Familiarity information: GLEBE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLEBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("glebe" is a kind of...):

acres; demesne; estate; land; landed estate (extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use)

 Context examples 

But so little interest had he taken in the matter, that he owed all his knowledge of the house, garden, and glebe, extent of the parish, condition of the land, and rate of the tithes, to Elinor herself, who had heard so much of it from Colonel Brandon, and heard it with so much attention, as to be entirely mistress of the subject.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)