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globe¹

  • /ɡləʊb/ UK
  • /ɡloʊb/ US
  • /ɡloːb/ Scotland

Rhymes with -əʊb

Where it comes from

From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus.

noun globes

  1. The eyeball.
  2. A spherical model of Earth or of another planet.
  3. A part of a device, often a lamp. the globe of a lamp
  4. Australia, South Africa, dated A 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.
  5. A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square. Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.
  6. in plural, slang A 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 the Grammys?). This year, she wore a silver and cream Zuhair Murad that showed off all of her best a
  7. obsolete A group.
  8. A land snail of the genus Mesodon.

proper noun the globe

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Globe (“the earth”)Globe They aspired to circumaviate the globe.

verb globes · globing · globed

  1. intransitive To become spherical.
  2. transitive To make spherical.

Globe²

proper noun

  1. The Earth. They aspired to circumnavigate the Globe.
  2. The Globe Theatre, the famous theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and performed. They aspired to replicate the Globe.
  3. A city, the county seat of Gila County, Arizona.
  4. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin.

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