Globe Meaning
/ɡləʊb/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAny spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
nounAny spherical (or nearly spherical) object., The eyeball.
Sentence Examples
We export various kinds of computers all over the globe.
I travel to all parts of the globe.
Tourists from every corner of the globe
CEFR Practice Quiz
The map showed the whole ____ with all its continents and oceans.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The internet has made it easier than ever before for people around the ____ to communicate with each other.
Word Origin & History
From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
"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"
— 1866, John Locke, A System of Theology:
"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."
— 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
"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."
— 1920, Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10, page 26:
"Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed."
— 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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The map showed the whole ____ with all its continents and oceans.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The internet has made it easier than ever before for people around the ____ to communicate with each other.