glebe
Meanings
Plural: glebes
Noun
- plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office
- Turf; soil; ground; sod.
- In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
- A field or meadow.
- A piece of earth containing ore.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French glebe, from Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”). Doublet of gleba.
Scrabble Score: 8
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Words With Friends Score: 11
glebe is a valid Words With Friends word