globe

See also: Globe and glóbe

English

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globe

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -əʊb

Noun

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), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] 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: […] [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.

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.

Synonyms

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

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

• global
• globular

Translations

spherical object

Aramaic: ܐܣܦܝܪܐ f (ʾespejrā) Azerbaijani: kürə (az) Arabic: کره (kure) Belarusian: шар m (šar), сфе́ра f (sfjéra), сфэ́ра f (sféra) Bulgarian: кълбо́ (bg) n (kǎlbó), сфе́ра (bg) f (sféra) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: globo (eo) Finnish: pallo (fi) Greek: Ancient: σφαῖρα f (sphaîra) Latin: globus (la) m Persian: گوی (fa) (guy) Iranian Persian: کُرِه (kore) Plautdietsch: Baul m Portuguese: globo (pt) m, esfera (pt) f Russian: сфе́ра (ru) f (sféra), шар (ru) m (šar) Swedish: glob (sv) c Tagalog: hilihid Tajik: кура (kura) Ukrainian: ку́ля f (kúlja), сфе́ра f (sféra) Zazaki: kure (diq)

planet Earth

Azerbaijani: yer kürəsi Belarusian: зямны́ шар m (zjamný šar), зямля́ f (zjamljá) Bulgarian: зе́мно кълбо́ n (zémno kǎlbó) Burmese: ကမ္ဘာ (my) (kambha), ကမ္ဘာမြေကြီး (kambha-mre-kri:), ကမ္ဘာလုံး (my) (kambhalum:) (any planet) Chinese: Mandarin: 地球 (zh) (dìqiú) Czech: zeměkoule (cs) f Danish: klode c, jordklode c Dutch: wereldbol (nl) m Finnish: maapallo (fi) French: Terre (fr) f, terre (fr) f German: Erde (de) f, Erdball (de) m, Erdkugel (de) f Greek: υδρόγειος (el) f (ydrógeios) Hebrew: כַּדּוּר הָאָרֶץ (he) m (kaddúr ha-áretz) Italian: globo (it) m Japanese: 地球 (ja) (ちきゅう, Chikyū), グローブ (ja) (gurōbu) Korean: 지구(地球) (ko) (Jigu) Neapolitan: gruóbo Norwegian: Bokmål: jordklode (no) m, klode m Nynorsk: jordklode m, klode m Ottoman Turkish: ارض (arz) Persian: Classical Persian: کُرَه (kura) Iranian Persian: کُرِه (kore) Polish: kula ziemska (pl) f, glob (pl) m, glob ziemski m Portuguese: globo (pt) m Romanian: glob (ro) n, Pământ (ro) n Russian: земно́й шар (ru) m (zemnój šar), Земля́ (ru) f (Zemljá), земля́ (ru) f (zemljá) Sanskrit: भूगोल (sa) m (bhūgola) Sinhalese: භූගෝලය (bhūgōlaya) Slovak: zemeguľa f Slovene: zemeljska krogla f Spanish: globo (es) m Swedish: jorden (sv), glob (sv) c Telugu: భూగోళము (te) (bhūgōḷamu) Turkish: yerküre (tr) Ukrainian: земна́ ку́ля f (zemná kúlja), земля́ (uk) f (zemljá) Uzbek: globus (uz) Zazaki: erdkure

model of Earth

Albanian: glob (sq) m American Sign Language: Open8@BackHand-PalmDown-S@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown Twist Arabic: كُرَة أَرْضِيَّة f (kura ʔarḍiyya) Armenian: գլոբուս (hy) (globus) Azerbaijani: qlobus (az) Arabic: کره مجسمه (kure mujassame) Belarusian: гло́бус m (hlóbus), глёбус m (hljóbus) Bulgarian: гло́бус m (glóbus) Catalan: globus (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 地球儀 / 地球仪 (zh) (dìqiúyí) Cornish: pel an norvys f Czech: glóbus (cs) m Danish: globus (da) c Dutch: wereldbol (nl) m, globe (nl) c Esperanto: terglobuso Estonian: gloobus Finnish: karttapallo (fi) French: globe (fr) m Georgian: გლობუსი (globusi) German: Globus (de) m Greek: υδρόγειος σφαίρα (el) f (ydrógeios sfaíra) Hawaiian: hulipoepoe Hebrew: גְּלוֹבּוּס (he) m (glóbus) Hindi: ग्लोब (glob) Hungarian: földgömb (hu), (rare or very specific) glóbusz (hu) Icelandic: hnattlíkan (is) f Indonesian: globe (id), bola dunia (id) Irish: cruinneog f Italian: globo (it) m Japanese: グローブ (ja) (gurōbu), 地球儀 (ja) (ちきゅうぎ, chikyūgi) Kazakh: глобус (globus) Korean: 지구의(地球儀) (ko) (jiguui), 지구본(地球本) (ko) (jigubon) Kyrgyz: глобус (ky) (globus) Lao: ລູກໂລກ (lūk lōk) Latvian: globuss m Lithuanian: gaublys m Macedonian: глобус m (globus) Malay: glob Maori: porotaka Neapolitan: gruóbo Norwegian: Bokmål: globus (no) m Nynorsk: globus m Pashto: غونډاری (ps) m (ǧunḍarai) Persian: Iranian Persian: گِلُب (gelob), کُرِهٔ اَرْض (kore-ye arz), کُرِهٔ جُغْرافِیَایی (kore-ye joġrâfiyâyi), کُرِهٔ زَمین (kore-ye zamin) Polish: globus (pl) m Portuguese: globo (pt) m Romanian: glob (ro) n Russian: гло́бус (ru) m (glóbus) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: гло́бус m Roman: glóbus (sh) m Slovak: glóbus (sk) m Slovene: globus (sl) m Spanish: globo terráqueo (es) m, globo (es) m Swahili: globu (sw) Swedish: jordglob (sv), glob (sv) c Tagalog: globo (tl) Tajik: глобус (globus) Tatar: глобус (globus) Telugu: గోళము (te) (gōḷamu) Thai: ลูกโลก (th) (lûuk-lôok) Turkish: küre (tr) Ukrainian: гло́бус (uk) m (hlóbus) Urdu: کُرَّۂ اَرْض m (kurra-yi arz), گْلوب (glob) Uyghur: گلوبۇس (globus) Uzbek: globus (uz) Vietnamese: quả địa cầu Yiddish: גלאָבוס m (globus) Zazaki: kure (diq), globes

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• Belgo-, Bogle, Gobel, Goble, bogle

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡloːbə/, [ˈɡ̊loːb̥ə]

Noun

globe c (singular definite globen, plural indefinite glober)

1. globe

Inflection

Declension of globe

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	globe	globen	glober	globerne
genitive	globes	globens	globers	globernes

Synonyms

• globus c

Derived terms

• globetrotter c

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French globe, borrowed from Latin globus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɔb/

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Noun

globe m (plural globes)

1. globe

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• global

Further reading

• “globe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

globe

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlobə/ [ˈɡlo.bə]
• Rhymes: -obə
• Syllabification: glo‧be

Noun

globê (plural globe-globe)

1. (uncommon) globe

   Synonym: bola dunia

Related terms

• global
• globalisasi
• globus

Further reading

• “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.

Latin

Noun

globe

1. vocative singular of globus

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin globus.

Noun

globe m (plural globes)

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

Descendants

• → English: globe
• French: globe

References

• 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)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

globe (Cyrillic spelling глобе)

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

Verb

globe (Cyrillic spelling глобе)

1. third-person plural present of globiti