globe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡləʊb/
ipa: /ɡloʊb/
ipa: /ɡloːb/
rhymes: -əʊb
Forms: form: globes
Etymology: From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus.
Senses: examples: text: the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp
glosses: Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
text: 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 the globe
ref: 1866, John Locke, A System of Theology:
text: 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 an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref: 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
glosses: The planet Earth.
glosses: A spherical model of Earth or other planet.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1920, Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10, page 26:
glosses: A light bulb.
examples: text: Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
examples: text: 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 assets, which even caused Jeremy Renner to blurt out a comment about her “globes” on stage.
ref: 2015 January 15, Paige Reddinger, “The Golden Globes 2015: A Full Tapis Rouge Rundown”, in Fashion Week Daily:
text: 'I got my wig out and my globes,' she joked to E! News host Ryan Seacrest, adjusting her breasts.
ref: 2016 January 11, Caitlin O’Toole, “'I got my wig out and my globes': Katy Perry wears big hair and a VERY low-cut pink dress on red carpet”, in Daily Mail:
qualifier: quite uncommon
glosses: A woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.
glosses: A group.
glosses: A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
Synonyms: sense: Earth
word: Earth
sense: Earth
word: world
sense: Earth
word: Terra
sense: Earth
word: Sol III
Derived terms: cyberglobe
englobe
eyeglobe
globe algae
globe amaranth
globe animalcule
globe artichoke
globe daisy
globe earther
globe-earther
globefish
globeflower
globeful
globehead
globeless
globelet
globe lightning
globelike
globe luxation
globemaker
globemaking
globe mallow
globe of compression
globe of the world
globe sight
globesity
globe sponge
globetard
globe thistle
globetrot
globe-trot
globe-trotter
globe trotter
globe-trotting
globewise
globie
globiferous
globocrat
globoid
globophobe
globophobic
globy
hemoglobin
inglobe
light globe
plasma globe
semiglobe
show globe
snowglobe
snow globe
time globe
Related terms: global
globular