glebe

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

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

Glebe, land belonging to the parish minister in right of his office. — The Pirate: Andrew Lang Edition, Walter Scott
Their incomes are supplemented by a small glebe, which is attached to each living. — Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge, J. A. (James Aitken) Wylie
This field extended to the limits of the glebe, which was enclosed on that side by a privet-hedge. — A pair of blue eyes, Thomas Hardy

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