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global villages

global villages is the plural of global village.

Meaning of global village

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

Questions about global villages

What is global villages the plural of?
Global villages is the plural of global village.

Words near global villages in the dictionary

  1. global searches and replaces
  2. global socialism
  3. global south
  4. global studies
  5. global village
  6. global villages
  7. global warming
  8. global warmist
  9. global weirding
  10. global workspace theory
  11. global-wide

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