globe
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus.
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊb
Noun
globe (plural globes)
- Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
- the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp
- The planet Earth.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of John Locke to this entry?)
- 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
- Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
- A spherical model of Earth or any planet.
- (dated or Australia, 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.
- 1920, Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10 (page 26)
- A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- (obsolete) A group.
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Translations
spherical object
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planet Earth
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model of Earth
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Verb
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- (intransitive) To become spherical.
- (transitive) To make spherical.
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From French globe, from Latin globus (“sphere, globe”).
Pronunciation
Noun
globe c (singular definite globen, plural indefinite glober)
Inflection
Declension of globe
Synonyms
- globus c
Derived terms
French
Etymology
From Middle French globe, borrowed from Latin globus.
Pronunciation
Noun
globe m (plural globes)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “globe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) globe
Middle French
Etymology
Noun
globe m (plural globes)
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (globe)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (globe, supplement)
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