different between glebe vs glee

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: gl?b, IPA^(key): /?li?b/

Noun

glebe (plural glebes)

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. (historical) In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
3. (archaic) A meadow, land or fields
4. (mining) A piece of earth containing ore.

Usage notes

• A number of places are named Glebe.

Derived terms

• glebe-house
• glebe-farm
• glebe-land

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?be

Noun

glebe f

1. plural of gleba

English

Etymology

From Middle English gle, from Old English gl?o, gl??, gl?ow, gl?w (“glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery”), from Proto-Germanic *gl?w? (“joy, mirth”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?lew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”). Cognate with Scots gle, glie, glew (“game, play, sport, mirth, joy, rejoicing, entertainment, melody, music”), Old Norse gl? (“joy, glee, gladness”), Ancient Greek ????? (khleú?, “joke, jest, scorn”). A poetic word in Middle English, the word was obsolete by 1500, but revived late 18c.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gl?, IPA^(key): /?li?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

glee (countable and uncountable, plural glees)

1. (uncountable) Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.

   Synonyms: merriment, mirth, gaiety, gloat
2. (uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
3. (music, countable) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

glee (third-person singular simple present glees, present participle gleeing, simple past and past participle gleed)

1. To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

Anagrams

• Egle, Lege, lege

Limburgish

Noun

glee f

1. something that is wet because it has been pasted together

Inflection

• Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.

See also

• èpperglieëdjómme

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German klein, kleine, from Old High German kleini, from Proto-Germanic *klainiz (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleh?y- (“to cleave, stick”). Compare German klein, Dutch klein.

Adjective

glee

1. small