Globe

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /É¡ləʊb/
• US IPA: /É¡loÊŠb/
• Scotland IPA: /É¡loːb/
• Rhymes: -əʊb

Origin

From Old French globe, from Latin globus.

Full definition of globe

Noun

1. Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp
2. The planet Earth.
• 2013-07-19, Timothy Garton Ash, Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, 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 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.
• MiltonHim round
  A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• globe-trotter
• show globe
• snowglobe

Related terms

• global
• globular

Verb

1. To become spherical----