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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
- The eyeball.
- A spherical model of Earth or of another planet.
- A part of a device, often a lamp. the globe of a lamp
- 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.
- A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square. Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.
- 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
- A group.
- A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
proper noun the globe
- Alternative letter-case form of Globe (“the earth”)Globe They aspired to circumaviate the globe.
verb globes · globing · globed
- To become spherical.
- To make spherical.
Globe²
proper noun
- The Earth. They aspired to circumnavigate the Globe.
- The Globe Theatre, the famous theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and performed. They aspired to replicate the Globe.
- A city, the county seat of Gila County, Arizona.
- An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin.