globe
English
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Etymology
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#GLOBECategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-#GLOBEFrom late Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#GLOBECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#GLOBE globe, from Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#GLOBE globe, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#GLOBE globe, borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#GLOBE globus. Doublet of globusCategory:English doublets#GLOBE.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɡləʊb/Category:English 1-syllable words#GLOBECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#GLOBE
- (US) IPA(key): /ɡloʊb/Category:English 1-syllable words#GLOBECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#GLOBE
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ɡloːb/Category:English 1-syllable words#GLOBECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#GLOBE
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#GLOBEAudio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊbCategory:Rhymes:English/əʊb#GLOBECategory:Rhymes:English/əʊb/1 syllable#GLOBE
Noun
globe (plural globes)Category:English lemmas#GLOBECategory:English nouns#GLOBECategory:English countable nouns#GLOBECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GLOBECategory:Pages with entries#GLOBECategory:Pages with 7 entries#GLOBE
- Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
- (medicineCategory:en:Medicine#GLOBE) The eyeball.
- Synonyms: (medical) globus, eyeglobe, bulbus oculi, bulbus
- A part of a device, often a lamp.
- the globe of a lampCategory:English terms with collocations#GLOBE
- (medicineCategory:en:Medicine#GLOBE) The eyeball.
- The planet Earth.
- 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
- Already CæſarCategory:English terms with quotations#GLOBE
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 globeCategory:English terms with quotations#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.Category:English terms with quotations#GLOBE
- A spherical model of Earth or other planet.
- (datedCategory:English dated terms#GLOBE or AustraliaCategory:Australian English#GLOBE, South AfricaCategory:South African English#GLOBE) 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.Category:English terms with quotations#GLOBE
- 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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]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.Category:English terms with quotations#GLOBE
- (slangCategory:English slang#GLOBE, quite uncommonCategory:English terms with uncommon senses#GLOBE, 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.Category:English terms with quotations#GLOBE
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#GLOBE
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#GLOBE) A group.
- A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- cyberglobe
- englobe
- eyeglobe
- globe algae
- globe amaranth
- globe animalcule
- globe artichoke
- globe daisy
- globe earther
- globe-earther
- globefish
- globeflower
- globeful
- globehead
- globeless
- globelet
- globe lightning
- globelike
- globe luxation
- globemaker
- globemaking
- globe mallow
- globe of compression
- globe of the world
- globe sight
- globesity
- globe sponge
- globetard
- globe thistle
- globetrot
- globe-trot
- globe-trotter
- globe trotter
- globe-trotting
- globewise
- globie
- globiferous
- globocrat
- globoid
- globophobe
- globophobic
- globy
- hemoglobin
- inglobe
- light globe
- plasma globe
- semiglobe
- show globe
- snowglobe
- snow globe
- time globe
Related terms
Translations
Verb
globe (third-person singular simple present globes, present participle globing, simple past and past participle globed)Category:English lemmas#GLOBECategory:English verbs#GLOBECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GLOBECategory:Pages with entries#GLOBECategory:Pages with 7 entries#GLOBE
Anagrams
Category:en:Geography#GLOBECategory:en:Snails#GLOBE Category:English calculator words#GLOBEDanish
Etymology
From FrenchCategory:Danish terms derived from French#GLOBE globe, from LatinCategory:Danish terms derived from Latin#GLOBE globus (“sphere, globe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡloːbə/, [ˈɡ̊loːb̥ə]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#GLOBE
Noun
globe c (singular definite globen, plural indefinite glober)Category:Danish lemmas#GLOBECategory:Danish nouns#GLOBECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#GLOBECategory:Danish common-gender nouns#GLOBECategory:Pages with entries#GLOBECategory:Pages with 7 entries#GLOBE
Inflection
Synonyms
- globus c
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Middle French#GLOBECategory:French terms derived from Middle French#GLOBE globe, borrowed from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#GLOBECategory:French terms derived from Latin#GLOBE globus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡlɔb/Category:French 1-syllable words#GLOBECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#GLOBE
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#GLOBEAudio: (file)
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Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#GLOBEAudio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file)
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#GLOBEAudio (France (Toulouse)): (file)
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#GLOBEAudio (France (Vosges)): (file)
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Noun
globe m (plural globes)Category:French lemmas#GLOBECategory:French nouns#GLOBECategory:French countable nouns#GLOBECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#GLOBECategory:French masculine nouns#GLOBECategory:Pages with entries#GLOBECategory:Pages with 7 entries#GLOBE
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “globe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from DutchCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch#GLOBECategory:Indonesian terms derived from Dutch#GLOBE globe, from Middle FrenchCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Middle French#GLOBE globe, from Old FrenchCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Old French#GLOBE globe, from LatinCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Latin#GLOBE globus. Doublet of globusCategory:Indonesian doublets#GLOBE.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈɡlobə/ [ˈɡlo.bə]Category:Indonesian 2-syllable words#GLOBECategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#GLOBE
- Rhymes: -obəCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/obə#GLOBECategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/obə/2 syllables#GLOBE
- Syllabification: glo‧be
Noun
globê (plural globe-globe)Category:Indonesian lemmas#GLOBECategory:Indonesian nouns#GLOBECategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#GLOBECategory:Pages with entries#GLOBECategory:Pages with 7 entries#GLOBE
Related terms
Further reading
- “globe”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Latin
Noun
globeCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#GLOBECategory:Latin noun forms#GLOBECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#GLOBECategory:Pages with entries#GLOBECategory:Pages with 7 entries#GLOBE
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:Middle French terms borrowed from Latin#GLOBECategory:Middle French terms derived from Latin#GLOBE globus.
Noun
globe m (plural globes)Category:Middle French lemmas#GLOBECategory:Middle French nouns#GLOBECategory:Middle French entries with incorrect language header#GLOBECategory:Middle French masculine nouns#GLOBECategory:Pages with entries#GLOBECategory:Pages with 7 entries#GLOBECategory:Middle French countable nouns#GLOBE
Descendants
References
- Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “globe”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
- Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “globe”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
globe (Cyrillic spelling глобе)Category:Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms#GLOBECategory:Serbo-Croatian noun forms#GLOBECategory:Requests for accents in Serbo-Croatian noun form entries#GLOBECategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#GLOBECategory:Pages with entries#GLOBECategory:Pages with 7 entries#GLOBE
- inflection of globa:
Verb
globe (Cyrillic spelling глобе)Category:Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms#GLOBECategory:Serbo-Croatian verb forms#GLOBECategory:Requests for accents in Serbo-Croatian verb form entries#GLOBECategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#GLOBECategory:Pages with entries#GLOBECategory:Pages with 7 entries#GLOBE