Usually means: Land supporting a parish church.
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  1. glebe: Merriam-Webster
  2. glebe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glebe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glebe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glebe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Glebe, glebe: Wordnik
  7. glebe: Wiktionary
  8. glebe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. glebe: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Glebe, glebe: Dictionary.com
  11. glebe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Glebe (disambiguation), Glebe (rugby league team), Glebe, The Glebe (literary magazine), The Glebe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Glebe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. glebe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. glebe: Rhymezone
  16. Glebe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. glebe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. glebe: FreeDictionary.org
  19. glebe: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. glebe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. glebe: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Glebe: World Wide Words

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Glebe: Legal dictionary

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  1. glebe: Encyclopedia

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  1. Glebe: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (glebe)

▸ noun:  Turf; soil; ground; sod.
▸ noun:  (historical) In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
▸ noun:  (poetic) A field or meadow.
▸ noun:  (mining) A piece of earth containing ore.

Similar:
turf, scraw, sward, clod, sord, ground, flag, swarth, lawn, gazon, more...

Phrases:
glebe house, glebe land, glebe houses, The Glebe, more...

Adjectives:
stubborn, own, old, sultry, small, rich, good, present, large, fruitful, fertile
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Similar:
turf, scraw, sward, clod, sord, ground, flag, swarth, lawn, gazon, more...

Phrases:
glebe house, glebe land, glebe houses, The Glebe, more...

Adjectives:
stubborn, own, old, sultry, small, rich, good, present, large, fruitful, fertile



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