global village

The definition of a global village is the idea that people are connected by easy travel, mass media and electronic communications, and have become a single community.

(noun)

An example of the global village is all the combined societies throughout the world.

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See global village in Webster's New World College Dictionary

the world regarded as having become a single community by the effects of mass media, rapid travel, etc.

See global village in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
The entire world and its inhabitants: “The global village has come to understand that no society that seeks respect can support or tolerate . . . savagery” (Hugh Sidey).

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