Globe Definition

glōb
globed, globes, globing
noun
globes
A body with the shape of a sphere, especially a representation of the earth in the form of a hollow ball.
American Heritage
Anything shaped somewhat like a globe.
Webster's New World
The earth.
American Heritage
Any round, ball-shaped thing; sphere.
Webster's New World
A planet.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb
globed, globes, globing
To assume the shape of or form into a sphere.
American Heritage
To form or gather into a globe.
Webster's New World

To become spherical.

Wiktionary
pronoun

A city in Arizona.

Wiktionary

An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.

Wiktionary
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idiom
the Globe
  • former London theater on the S bank of the Thames: site of the original performances of many of Shakespeare's plays
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Globe

Noun

Singular:
globe
Plural:
globes

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Globe

  • the Globe

Origin of Globe

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin globus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French globe, from Latin globus.

    From Wiktionary

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Globe Sentence Examples

  • He's been globe trotting for the last three weeks.

  • The size of a globe is usually given in terms of its diameter.

  • Sir John Murray deduced the mean height of the land of the globe as about 2250 ft.

  • The zoology of Australia and Tasmania presents a very conspicuous point of difference from that of other regions of the globe, in the prevalence of non-placental mammalia.

  • In 1653 he had made the astonishing proposal to the Dutch that England and Holland should divide the habitable globe outside Europe between them, that all states maintaining the Inquisition should be treated as enemies by both the proposed allies, and that the latter "should send missionaries to all peoples willing to receive them, to inculcate the truth of Jesus Christ and the Holy Gospel."

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

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