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From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus.
globe (plural globes)
- Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp
- 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.
- A spherical model of Earth or other planet.
- (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.
- 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.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- (obsolete) A group.
- A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
- cyberglobe
- englobe
- eyeglobe
- 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
- globe-trot
- globetrot
- globe-trotter
- globe trotter
- globe-trotting
- globewise
- globie
- globiferous
- globocrat
- globoid
- globophobe
- globophobic
- globy
- hemoglobin
- inglobe
- light globe
- plasma globe
- semiglobe
- show globe
- snow globe
- snowglobe
- time globe
spherical object
- 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:
- 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:
- 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)
- 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:
- Persian:
- 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:
- 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)
- 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
- Neapolitan: gruóbo
- Norwegian:
- Pashto: غونډاری (ps) m (ǧunḍarai)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: گِلُب (gelob), کُرِهٔ اَرْض (kore-ye arz), کُرِهٔ جُغْرافِیَایی (kore-ye joğrâfiyâyi), کُرِهٔ زَمین (kore-ye zamin)
- Polish: globus (pl) m
- Portuguese: globo (pt) m
- Romanian: glob (ro) n
- Russian: гло́бус (ru) m (glóbus)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- 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 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
globe (third-person singular simple present globes, present participle globing, simple past and past participle globed)
- (intransitive) To become spherical.
- (transitive) To make spherical.
From French globe, from Latin globus (“sphere, globe”).
globe c (singular definite globen, plural indefinite glober)
- globus c
Inherited from Middle French globe, borrowed from Latin globus.
globe m (plural globes)
- “globe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
globe
globe m (plural globes)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (globe)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (globe, supplement)