/ɡləʊb/, /ɡloʊb/, /ɡloːb/
OriginFrom late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus.
- The eyeball.
- A part of a device, often a lamp.
- The planet Earth.
“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.”
“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”
“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 a”
- A spherical model of Earth or other planet.
- Australia, South-Africa, datedA light bulb.
“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.
“Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.”
- in-plural, slangA woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.
“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 ”
“'I got my wig out and my globes,' she joked to E! News host Ryan Seacrest, adjusting her breasts.”
- obsoleteA group.
- A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
- intransitiveTo become spherical.
- transitiveTo make spherical.
- A city, the county seat of Gila County, Arizona.
- An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin.
Formsglobes(plural) · globes(present, singular, third-person) · globing(participle, present) · globed(participle, past) · globed(past)