global
Syllables: glo·bal/ˈɡləʊ.bəl/US/ˈɡloʊ.bəl/
global adjective: concerning all parts of the world.
Adjective
global (comparative more global, superlative most global)
- Concerning all parts of the world.
- Pollution is a global problem.
- World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the War on Terror are global conflicts.
- Synonyms:
- world-wide, planetary
- Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal
- The first account that is created when you sign up is the global Administrator.2013 December 30, Matthew Katze, Don Crawford, Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud, →ISBN, page 366
- Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.
- Global variables keep support engineers employed.
- Which has to be considered in its entirety.
- Spherical, ball-shaped.
- In the center was a small, global mass.
- Synonyms:
- ball-shaped, globular, round, spherical
- Of or relating to a globe or sphere.
Noun
global (plural globals)
- A globally scoped identifier.
Adverb
global (comparative more global, superlative most global)
- In the global manner; world-wide.
- Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122
global meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
global in Hindi
- concerning all parts of the world
- वैश्विक vaiśvik
global in Tamil
- உலகளாவிய, உலக, உருண்டை வடிவ, பூகோள, முழுமையான, பூரண
global in Marathi
- concerning all parts of the world
- जागतिक jāgtik
global in Urdu
- concerning all parts of the world
- عالَمی 'ālamī, جَہانی jahānī, آفاقی āfāqī
More languagesFewer languages
- global in Bengali
- বিশ্ব biśśo
- global in Telugu
- గ్లోబల్
- global in Malayalam
- ആഗോള āgōḷa
- global in Kannada
- ವಿಶ್ವವ್ಯಾಪಿಯಾದ, ಭೂಮಂಡಲದ, ವಿಶ್ವವ್ಯಾಪಕ, ವಿಶ್ವಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ
- global in Gujarati
- વૈશ્વિક
- global in Odia
- ବିଶ୍ୱସ୍ତରୀଯ଼, ବୈଶ୍ୱିକ
- global in Nepali
- वैश्विक
- global in Arabic
- عَالَمِيّ ʕālamiyy
- global in Thai
- ทั่วโลก tûua-lôok
- global in Vietnamese
- thế giới
Examples of global in a sentence
- Some rights are more global than others; social rights in particular do not seem to globalise easily.2003, Catherine Dupré, Importing the law in post-communist transitions, page 169:
- It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime.2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation isn't just about profits. It's about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number...
Synonyms of global
Antonyms
Forms of global
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more global |
| superlative | most global |
| Noun | |
| plural | globals |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | more global |
| superlative | most global |
Origin of global
From globe + -al; compare French global.
Words formed from global
- antiglobal
- antiglobalist
- circumglobal
- global affair
- global affairs
- global boiling
- global city
- global cooling
- global coupling
- global dimming
- global distillation
- global distribution system
- global element
- global empire
- global etymology
- global governance
- global heating
- global hectare
- global hoax
- global illumination
- global image
- global indicator
- globalisation
- globalism
- globalist
- globalitarian
- globality
- globalization
- globalize
- global literature
- globally
- global majority
- global maximum
- global minimum
- global navigation satellite system
- global north
- globaloney
- global order
- global panini
- global positioning system
- global scope
- global search and replace
- global socialism
- global south
- global studies
- global village
- global warming
- global warmist
- global weirding
- global-wide
- global workspace theory
- globesity
- Globish
- globital
- globohomo
- glocal
- glocalization
- hyperglobal
- hyperglobalist
- interglobal
Phrases with global
Words that rhyme with global
Questions about global
- What does global mean?
- Global means concerning all parts of the world.
- What is global in Hindi?
- Global in Hindi is वैश्विक (vaiśvik). See Global meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use global in a sentence?
- Some rights are more global than others; social rights in particular do not seem to globalise easily.
- What part of speech is global?
- Global can be an adjective, a noun or an adverb.
- How do you pronounce global?
- Global is pronounced /ˈɡləʊ.bəl/ (UK).
Words near global in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: global (page history and authors); global (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); বিশ্ব (Bengali) (page history and authors); global (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); global (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); global (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); global (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); global (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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