glebe

n. 土, 土地

发音

UK /ɡliːb/
其它
US /ɡlib/

词形变化

glebes 复数 glebes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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. 2.

    In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.

    历史
  3. 3.

    A field or meadow.

    诗歌
  4. 4.

    A piece of earth containing ore.

    商务 采矿

词汇关系

名词

上位词 4

land estate acres demesne

相关短语

glebe farm glebe farms

词源

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

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