1. Land belonging to a parish church or to a clergyman as part of their benefice.
Usage: chiefly British; historical or ecclesiastical
2. Soil or earth; the ground.
Usage: archaic or poetic

Examples

• The vicar farmed the glebe to supplement his modest income.
• The church's glebe provided pasture for livestock.
• In medieval times, the glebe was an important source of revenue for the parish priest.
• The old glebe house still stands near the village church.
• Poets often wrote of tilling the glebe in rural landscapes.