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Definition of glebe noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

glebe

noun
 
/ɡliːb/
 
/ɡliːb/
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  1. [countable] (in the past) a piece of land that provided an income for a Christian priest
  2. [uncountable] (old use) land; fields
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin gleba, glaeba ‘clod, land, soil’.
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