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English
Etymology
From globe + -al; compare French global.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡləʊbəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) enPR: glō'bəl, IPA(key): /ˈɡloʊbəl/
- Rhymes: -əʊbəl
Adjective
global (comparative more global, superlative most global)
- Concerning all parts of the world.
- 2003, Catherine Dupré, Importing the law in post-communist transitions, page 169:
- Some rights are more global than others; social rights in particular do not seem to globalise easily.
- 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
- It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
- Pollution is a global problem.
- (not comparable) Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal:
- 2013 December 30, Matthew Katze, Don Crawford, Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud, →ISBN, page 366:
- The first account that is created when you sign up is the global Administrator.
- (not comparable, computing) Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.
- Global variables keep support engineers employed.
- Which has to be considered in its entirety.
- Spherical, ball-shaped.
- In the center was a small, global mass.
- (not comparable) Of or relating to a globe or sphere.
Synonyms
- (concerning all parts of the world): world-wide, planetary
- (spherical): ball-shaped, globular, round, spherical
- (of or relating to a globe or sphere):
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “concerning all parts of the world”): domestic, national, local, regional
- (antonym(s) of “of a variable, in computing”): local
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- global affair
- global affairs
- global caliphate
- global cooling
- global coupling
- global dimming
- global distillation
- global distribution system
- global element
- global etymology
- global governance
- global heating
- global illumination
- global image
- global indicator
- globalisation
- globalism
- globalist
- globalization
- globalize
- global literature
- globally
- global majority
- global maximum
- global minimum
- Global North
- global north
- global order
- Global Positioning System
- global positioning system
- global scope
- global socialism
- Global South
- global studies
- global village
- global warming
- global weirding
- global-wide
- global workspace theory
- globesity
- glocal
- nonglobal
- unglobal
Related terms
Translations
spherical
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of or relating to a globe or sphere
concerning all parts of the world
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of a variable, in computing
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Noun
global (plural globals)
- (computing) A globally scoped identifier.
Antonyms
Adverb
global (comparative more global, superlative most global)
- In the global manner; world-wide.
- 2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122:
- Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
References
- “global”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- global in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “global”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Further reading
Catalan
Pronunciation
Adjective
global m or f (masculine and feminine plural globals)
- global (concerning all parts of the world)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “global” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “global”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “global” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “global” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From globe (“globe”) + -al, from Latin globus (“globe, sphere”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
global (feminine globale, masculine plural globaux, feminine plural globales)
Synonyms
- (spherical): globulaire, sphérique
- (worldwide): mondial
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “not worldwide”): local, régional
- (antonym(s) of “not on the whole”): particulier, spécifique
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “global”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Galician
Adjective
global m or f (plural globais)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “global” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
global (strong nominative masculine singular globaler, not comparable)
Declension
Positive forms of global (uncomparable)
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| predicative | er ist global | sie ist global | es ist global | sie sind global | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | globaler | globale | globales | globale |
| genitive | globalen | globaler | globalen | globaler | |
| dative | globalem | globaler | globalem | globalen | |
| accusative | globalen | globale | globales | globale | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der globale | die globale | das globale | die globalen |
| genitive | des globalen | der globalen | des globalen | der globalen | |
| dative | dem globalen | der globalen | dem globalen | den globalen | |
| accusative | den globalen | die globale | das globale | die globalen | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein globaler | eine globale | ein globales | (keine) globalen |
| genitive | eines globalen | einer globalen | eines globalen | (keiner) globalen | |
| dative | einem globalen | einer globalen | einem globalen | (keinen) globalen | |
| accusative | einen globalen | eine globale | ein globales | (keine) globalen | |
Further reading
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch globaal, from French global, globe, from Latin globus (“globe, sphere”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
global
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “global” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the noun globus.
Adjective
global (neuter singular globalt, definite singular and plural globale)
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- “global” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the noun globus.
Adjective
global (neuter singular globalt, definite singular and plural globale)
Derived terms
References
- “global” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Occitan
Pronunciation
Audio (Languedocien) (file)
Adjective
global m (feminine singular globala, masculine plural globals, feminine plural globalas)
- global (concerning all parts of the world)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From globo (“globe”) + -al (“of or relating to”).
Adjective
global m or f (plural globais)
- global (concerning all parts of the world)
- Synonym: mundial
- (computing, of a variable) global (accessible by all parts of a program)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Adjective
global m or f (plural globais)
- (Brazil, of artists) working, having worked, or with potential to work, with Globo (Brazilian television network)
- uma atriz global ― a Globo actress
- (Brazil) of or relating to Globo
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French global. Equivalent to glob + -al.
Adjective
global m or n (feminine singular globală, masculine plural globali, feminine and neuter plural globale)
Declension
Declension of global
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | global | globală | globali | globale | ||
| definite | globalul | globala | globalii | globalele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | global | globale | globali | globale | ||
| definite | globalului | globalei | globalilor | globalelor | |||
Spanish
Pronunciation
Adjective
global m or f (masculine and feminine plural globales)
Derived terms
Related terms
Noun
global m (plural globales)
- (sports) aggregate (the total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores)
- Synonym: resultado global
Further reading
- “global”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Adjective
global (not comparable)
- global, spanning the entire globe, the whole world, international, universal
Declension
| Inflection of global | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | global | — | — |
| Neuter singular | globalt | — | — |
| Plural | globala | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | globale | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | globale | — | — |
| All | globala | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
Derived terms
Further reading
- global in Svensk ordbok.