glebe

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɡliːb/    美 /ɡlib/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Turf; soil; ground; sod.
    — 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke
  2. In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses. historical
  3. A field or meadow. poetic
    — Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.
  4. A piece of earth containing ore.

词形变化

glebes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
glebe-farm glebe farm glebe-house glebe-land glebeless glebous gleby
相关词
glaebule

词源

From Old French glebe, from Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”). Doublet of gleba.
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