globe

See also: Globe and glóbe

English

A globe.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡləʊb/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡloʊb/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɡloːb/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊb

Noun

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 any 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.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.

6. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
7. (obsolete) A group.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• globe-trotter
• show globe
• snowglobe
• hemoglobin

Related terms

• global
• globular

Translations

spherical object

• Azerbaijani: kürə (az)
• Bulgarian: кълбо (bg) n (kǎlbo), сфера (bg) f (sfera)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: pallo (fi)
• Greek:

  Ancient: σφαῖρα f (sphaîra)

• Latin: globus (la) m
• Plautdietsch: Baul m
• Portuguese: globo (pt) m, esfera (pt) f
• Swedish: glob (sv) c
• Tagalog: hilihid
• Zazaki: kure (diq)

planet Earth

• Azerbaijani: yer kürəsi
• Bulgarian: земно кълбо n (zemno kǎlbo)
• Burmese: ကမ္ဘာ (my) (kambha), ကမ္ဘာမြေကြီး (kambha-mre-kri:), ကမ္ဘာလုံး (my) (kambhalum:) (any planet)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地球 (zh) (dìqiú)

• Czech: zeměkoule (cs) f
• Danish: klode c, jordklode c
• Dutch: wereldbol (nl) m
• Finnish: maapallo (fi)
• French: Terre (fr) f, terre (fr) f
• German: Erde (de) f, Erdkugel (de) f
• Greek: υδρόγειος (el) f (ydrógeios)
• Italian: globo (it) m
• Japanese: 地球 (ja) (ちきゅう, Chikyū), グローブ (gurōbu)

• Korean: 지구 (ko) (Jigu)
• Neapolitan: gruóbo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jordklode (no) m, klode m

  Nynorsk: jordklode m, klode m

• Persian: کره‎ (fa) (kore)
• Polish: kula ziemska (pl) f, glob (pl) m, glob ziemski m
• Portuguese: globo (pt) m
• Romanian: glob (ro) n, Pământ (ro) n
• Russian: земно́й шар (ru) m (zemnój šar), Земля́ (ru) f (Zemljá), земля́ (ru) f (zemljá)
• Spanish: globo (es) m
• Swedish: jorden (sv), glob (sv) c
• Telugu: భూగోళము (te) (bhūgōḷamu)
• Turkish: yerküre (tr)
• Uzbek: globus (uz)
• Zazaki: erdkure

model of Earth

• American Sign Language: Open8@BackHand-PalmDown-S@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown Twist
• Arabic: الْكُرَة الْأَرْضِيَّة‎ f (al-kura al-ʾarḍiyya)
• Armenian: գլոբուս (hy) (globus)
• Azerbaijani: qlobus (az)
• Belarusian: гло́бус m (hlóbus)
• Bulgarian: глобус m (globus)
• Catalan: globus (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: glóbus (cs) m
• Danish: globus (da) c
• Dutch: wereldbol (nl) m, globe (nl) c
• Esperanto: terglobuso
• Estonian: gloobus
• Finnish: karttapallo (fi)
• French: globe (fr) m
• Georgian: გლობუსი (globusi)
• German: Globus (de) m
• Greek: υδρόγειος σφαίρα (el) f (ydrógeios sfaíra)
• Hebrew: גלובוס‎ (he) (globos)
• Hindi: ग्लोब (glob)
• Hungarian: földgömb (hu), (rare or very specific) glóbusz (hu)
• Icelandic: hnöttur (is) m
• Irish: cruinneog f
• Italian: globo (it) m
• Japanese: グローブ (gurōbu), 地球儀 (ja) (ちきゅうぎ, chikyūgi)
• Kazakh: глобус (globus)
• Korean: 지구의 (ko) (jiguui), 지구본 (ko) (jigubon)
• Kyrgyz: глобус (ky) (ğlobus)

• Latvian: globuss m
• Lithuanian: gaublys m
• Macedonian: глобус m (globus)
• Malay: glob
• Neapolitan: gruóbo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: globus (no) m

  Nynorsk: globus m

• Pashto: غونډاری‎ (ps) m (ghunddarai)
• Polish: globus (pl) m
• Portuguese: globo (pt) m
• Romanian: glob (ro) n
• Russian: гло́бус (ru) m (glóbus)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: глобус m

  Roman: globus (sh) m

• Slovak: glóbus (sk) m
• Slovene: globus (sl) m
• Spanish: globo terráqueo (es) m, globo (es) m
• Swedish: jordglob (sv), glob (sv) c
• Tagalog: globo (tl)
• Tajik: глобус (globus)
• Telugu: గోళము (te) (gōḷamu)
• Thai: ลูกโลก (th) (lûuk-lôok)
• Turkish: küre (tr)
• Ukrainian: гло́бус m (hlóbus)
• Uzbek: globus (uz)
• Vietnamese: quả địa cầu
• Yiddish: גלאָבוס‎ m (globus)
• Zazaki: kure (diq), globes

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• Belgo-, Bogle, Gobel, Goble, bogle

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡloːbə/, [ˈɡ̊loːb̥ə]

Noun

globe c (singular definite globen, plural indefinite glober)

1. globe

Inflection

Declension of globe

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

Synonyms

• globus c

Derived terms

• globetrotter c

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French

Etymology

From Middle French globe, borrowed from Latin globus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɔb/

• audio

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Noun

globe m (plural globes)

1. globe

Derived terms

• englober
• globe terrestre
• globe-trotter
• globe oculaire

Related terms

• global

Further reading

• “globe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Noun

globe

1. vocative singular of globus

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Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin globus.

Noun

globe m (plural globes)

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

Descendants

• → English: globe
• French: globe

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (globe)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (globe, supplement)