globe

English

Wikipedia

A globe (model of Earth).

Etymology

From Old French globe, from Latin globus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɡləʊb/
• (US) IPA: /ɡloʊb/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ɡloːb/
• Rhymes: -əʊb

Noun

globe (plural globes)

1. Any spherical object
2. The planet Earth.
3. A spherical model of Earth or any planet.
4. (dated or South Africa) A light bulb.
   • 1920, Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10 (page 26)

     Don't ask for a new globe just because the old one needs dusting. The old-style carbon lamps wasted electricity when they began to fade and it was economy to replace them.

Synonyms

• (The Earth): Earth, world, Terra, Sol III

Derived terms

• globe-trotter
• show globe
• snowglobe

Related terms

• global
• globular

Translations

the planet Earth

• Burmese: ကမ္ဘာ (my), ကမ္ဘာမြေကြီး (my), ကမ္ဘာလုံး (my) (any planet)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地球 (cmn) (Dìqiú)

• Czech: zeměkoule (cs) f
• Danish: klode (da) c, jordklode (da) c
• Dutch: wereldbol (nl) m
• Finnish: maapallo (fi)
• French: Terre (fr) f, terre (fr) f
• German: Erde (de) f, Erdkugel (de) f
• Italian: globo (it) m

• Japanese: 地球 (ja) (ちきゅう, Chikyū), グローブ (ja) (gurōbu)
• Neapolitan: gruóbo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jordklode (no) m

• Persian: کره (fa)
• Romanian: Pământ (ro)
• Russian: земной шар (ru) (zemnój šar) m, Земля (ru) (Zemljá) f, земля (ru) (zemljá) f
• Swedish: jorden (sv)
• Telugu: (bhuugoolamu) భూగోళము (te)
• Turkish: yerküre (tr)

model of Earth

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地球儀 (cmn), 地球仪 (cmn) (dìqiúyí)

• Czech: glóbus (cs) m
• Danish: globus (da) c
• Dutch: wereldbol m
• Esperanto: terglobuso (eo)
• Finnish: karttapallo (fi)
• French: globe (fr) m
• German: Globus (de) m
• Hebrew: גלובוס (he) (globos)
• Hungarian: földgömb (hu), (rare or very specific) glóbusz (hu)
• Italian: globo (it) m
• Japanese: グローブ (ja) (gurōbu), 地球儀 (ja) (ちきゅうぎ, chikyūgi)

• Neapolitan: gruóbo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: globus (no) m

  Nynorsk: globus (nn) m

• Pashto: غونډاری (ps) (ghunddarai) m
• Polish: globus (pl) m
• Romanian: glob (ro)
• Russian: глобус (ru) (glóbus) m
• Slovak: glóbus (sk) m
• Spanish: globo (es) m
• Swedish: jordglob (sv)
• Telugu: (goolamu) గోళము (te)
• Turkish: küre (tr)

Verb

globe (third-person singular simple present globes, present participle globing, simple past and past participle globed)

1. To become spherical

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Danish

Etymology

From French globe, from Latin glŏbus (“sphere, globe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡloːbə/, [ˈɡ̊loːb̥ə]

Noun

globe c (singular definite globen, plural indefinite glober)

1. globe

Synonyms

• globus c

Derived terms

• globetrotter c

Inflection

    Inflection of globe

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	globe	globen	glober	globerne
genitive	globes	globens	globers	globernes

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin globus.

Pronunciation

• audio

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Noun

globe m (plural globes)

1. globe

Related terms

• globe terrestre
• globe-trotter

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Latin

Noun

globe

1. vocative singular of globus