globe

Etymology

From Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus.

Pronunciation

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of John Locke to this entry?)

   • 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 any 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.
   • Milton

     Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.

6. (slang, chiefly plural) A woman's breasts.

Verb

globe (third-person singular simple present globes, present participle globing, simple past and past participle globed)

1. To become spherical

Anagrams

• Belgo-, Bogle, Gobel, Goble, bogle

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin globus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɔb/

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Noun

globe m (plural globes)

1. globe

Further reading

• “globe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Noun

globe

1. vocative singular of globus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin globus.

Noun

globe m (plural globes)

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

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)