globular
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French globulaire.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
globular (comparative more globular, superlative most globular)
- Roughly spherical in shape; globe-shaped.
- 1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café:
- "Nary a spot," interrupted E. R. Coglan, flippantly. "The terrestrial, globular, planetary hunk of matter, slightly flattened at the poles, and known as the Earth, is my abode.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 148:
- Podson's globular stare assured any woman that the bargain was sacred. It was solemn, intent, opaque; it was also slightly mesmeric, which is to say that it gave out everything and took in nothing.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- Globular lights, painted a dark green, hang from under the fancy iron eaves, unlit for centuries...
- Comprising globules.
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TranslationsEdit
roughly spherical
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NounEdit
globular (plural globulars)
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
globular m or f (plural globulares)
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French globulaire.
AdjectiveEdit
globular m or n (feminine singular globulară, masculine plural globulari, feminine and neuter plural globulare)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of globular
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | globular | globulară | globulari | globulare | ||
definite | globularul | globulara | globularii | globularele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | globular | globulare | globulari | globulare | ||
definite | globularului | globularei | globularilor | globularelor |
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
globular (plural globulares)
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Further readingEdit
- “globular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014