globe
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus.
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɡləʊb/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɡloʊb/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ɡloːb/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊb
NounEdit
globe (plural globes)
- Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
- the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp
- 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.
- 1866, John Locke, A System of Theology
- A spherical model of Earth or other 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.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- (obsolete) A group.
- A land snail of the genus Mesodon
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- globe amaranth
- globe animalcule
- globe artichoke
- globe daisy
- globe earther
- globe luxation
- globe mallow
- globe of compression
- globe of the world
- globe sight
- globe sponge
- globe thistle
- globe trotter
- globe-earther
- globe-trot
- globe-trotter
- globe-trotting
- hemoglobin
- light globe
- show globe
- snow globe
- snowglobe
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
spherical object
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planet Earth
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model of Earth
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VerbEdit
globe (third-person singular simple present globes, present participle globing, simple past and past participle globed)
- (intransitive) To become spherical.
- (transitive) To make spherical.
AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French globe, from Latin globus (“sphere, globe”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
globe c (singular definite globen, plural indefinite glober)
InflectionEdit
Declension of globe
SynonymsEdit
- globus c
Derived termsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French globe, borrowed from Latin globus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
globe m (plural globes)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “globe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
LatinEdit
NounEdit
globe
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
globe m (plural globes)
DescendantsEdit
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)