globe

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/

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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.
   • 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: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.

6. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
7. (obsolete) A group.
8. A land snail of the genus Mesodon.

• (The 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/, [ˈɡ̊loːb̥ə]

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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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)