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globe

See also: Globe and glóbe

EnglishEdit

 
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A globe.

EtymologyEdit

From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus.

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globe (plural globes)

  1. Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
    the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp
  2. The planet Earth.
    • 1866, John Locke, A System of Theology
      But whatever opinion or theory may be formed by any one, all agree that at some period or other this world has been destroyed by water, and that the proofs of this assertion are found in every part of the globe
    • 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.
  3. A spherical model of Earth or other planet.
  4. (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.
  5. A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
  6. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
  7. (obsolete) A group.
  8. A land snail of the genus Mesodon

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

  1. (intransitive) To become spherical.
  2. (transitive) To make spherical.

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DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ɡloːbə/, [ˈɡ̊loːb̥ə]

NounEdit

globe c (singular definite globen, plural indefinite glober)

  1. globe

InflectionEdit

Declension of globe
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative globe globen glober globerne
genitive globes globens globers globernes

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French globe, borrowed from Latin globus.

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globe m (plural globes)

  1. globe

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LatinEdit

NounEdit

globe

  1. vocative singular of globus

Middle FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin globus.

NounEdit

globe m (plural globes)

  1. roll (of paper, etc.)
  2. globe (sphere showing a representation of the Earth)

DescendantsEdit

  • → English: globe
  • French: globe

ReferencesEdit

  • 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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