globe

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

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

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -əʊb

globe (plural globes)

1. Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.

   the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp

2. The planet Earth.
   • 1712 (date written), Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. , London: J Tonson, , published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:

     Already Cæſar
     Has ravaged more than half the Globe, and ſees
     Mankind grown thin by his deſtructive Sword:
     Should he go further, Numbers would be wanting
     To form new Battels, and ſupport his Crimes.

   • 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 other 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: ">…] , and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:

     Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.

6. (slang, quite uncommon, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.
   • 2015 January 15, Paige Reddinger, “The Golden Globes 2015: A Full Tapis Rouge Rundown”, in Fashion Week Daily‎:

     Meanwhile, Jennifer Lopez went with her favorite silhouette: a robe-like dress, barely fastened solely in the areas you actually can’t reveal on the red carpet (remember that famous Versace number at the Grammys?). This year, she wore a silver and cream Zuhair Murad that showed off all of her best assets, which even caused Jeremy Renner to blurt out a comment about her “globes” on stage.

   • 2016 January 11, Caitlin O’Toole, “'I got my wig out and my globes': Katy Perry wears big hair and a VERY low-cut pink dress on red carpet”, in Daily Mail‎:

     'I got my wig out and my globes,' she joked to E! News host Ryan Seacrest, adjusting her breasts.

7. (obsolete) A group.
8. A land snail of the genus Mesodon.

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

• global
• globular

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.

• Belgo-, Bogle, Gobel, Goble, bogle

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡloːbə/,

globe c (singular definite globen, plural indefinite glober)

1. globe

• globus c

• globetrotter c

Inherited from Middle French globe, borrowed from Latin globus.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɔb/

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globe m (plural globes)

1. globe

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

• global

• “globe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

globe

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Borrowed from Dutch globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, from Latin globus. Doublet of globus.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlobə/
• Rhymes: -obə
• Syllabification: glo‧be

globê (plural globe-globe)

1. (uncommon) globe

   Synonym: bola dunia

• “globe” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

globe

1. vocative singular of globus

Borrowed from Latin globus.

globe m (plural globes)

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

• → English: globe
• French: globe

• 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)

globe (Cyrillic spelling глобе)

1. inflection of globa:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

globe (Cyrillic spelling глобе)

1. third-person plural present of globiti