globe

See also: Globe and glóbe

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus.

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

globe (plural globes)

1. Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.

   the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp

2. 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.

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.
   • Milton

     Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.

6. (slang, chiefly plural) A woman's breasts.

SynonymsEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

• globe-trotter
• show globe
• snowglobe

Related termsEdit

• global
• globular

TranslationsEdit

Any spherical object

• Bulgarian: кълбо (bg) n (kǎlbo), сфера (bg) f (sfera)
• Portuguese: globo (pt) m, esfera (pt) f

• Tagalog: hilihid

the planet Earth

• 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 (Jigu)

• Neapolitan: gruóbo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jordklode (no) m, klode m

  Nynorsk: jordklode m, klode m

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

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)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: glóbus (cs) m
• Danish: globus (da) c
• Dutch: wereldbol (nl) m
• Esperanto: terglobuso
• Estonian: gloobus
• Finnish: karttapallo
• 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 (globws)
• Korean: 지구의 (jiguui), 지구본 (jigubon)
• Kyrgyz: глобус (ky) (globus)
• 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)
• Tagalog: globo (tl)
• Tajik: глобус (globus)
• Telugu: గోళము (te) (gōḷamu)
• Thai: ลูกโลก (lûuk-lôok)
• Turkish: küre (tr)
• Ukrainian: гло́бус m (hlóbus)
• Uzbek: globus (uz)
• Vietnamese: quả địa cầu
• Yiddish: גלאָבוס‎‎ m (globus)

VerbEdit

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

1. To become spherical

AnagramsEdit

• Belgo-, Bogle, Gobel, Goble, bogle

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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

SynonymsEdit

• globus c

Derived termsEdit

• globetrotter c

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin globus.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɔb/

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NounEdit

globe m (plural globes)

1. globe

Derived termsEdit

• englober

Related termsEdit

• globe terrestre
• globe-trotter

Further readingEdit

• “globe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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LatinEdit

NounEdit

globe

1. vocative singular of globus

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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 (borrowed)
• French: globe

ReferencesEdit

• 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)