globe

Borrowed from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin 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.

   (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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.

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

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

• globe-trotter
• show globe
• snowglobe

• 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

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

• global

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

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 (borrowed)
• 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)