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global village

global village noun: the world as a single community of interdependent inhabitants who are interconnected by contemporary technology, especially television and the World Wide Web.

Noun

global village (plural global villages)

  1. The world as a single community of interdependent inhabitants who are interconnected by contemporary technology, especially television and the World Wide Web.
    • But certainly the electro-magnetic discoveries have recreated the simultaneous “field” in all human affairs so that the human family now exists under conditions of a “global village.”1962, Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy, University of Toronto Press, →OCLC, page 31
    • McLuhan believes that the world is rapidly becoming a "global village," in which mankind communicates in a supermodern version of the way tribal societies were once related.1964 July 3, “Blowing Hot & Cold”, in Time, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2011

global village meaning in Tamil

global village in Tamil

முழுமக் கிராமம்

Forms of global village

pluralglobal villages

Origin of global village

Coined by Marshall McLuhan in 1962.

Questions about global village

What does global village mean?
Global village means the world as a single community of interdependent inhabitants who are interconnected by contemporary technology, especially television and the World Wide Web.
What is global village in Tamil?
Global village in Tamil is முழுமக் கிராமம். See Global village meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is global village?
Global village is a noun.
What is the plural of global village?
The plural of global village is global villages.

Words near global village in the dictionary

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  6. global village
  7. global villages
  8. global warming
  9. global warmist
  10. global weirding
  11. global workspace theory

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