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globe

UK/ɡləʊb/US/ɡloʊb/

globe noun: the eyeball. Also the alternative letter-case form of Globe.

globe: the eyeball
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Noun

globe (plural globes)

  1. The eyeball.
  2. A spherical model of Earth or of another planet.
  3. A part of a device, often a lamp.
    • the globe of a lamp
  4. (Australia, South Africa, dated) A light bulb.
    • 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
  5. A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
    • 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...
  6. (in plural, slang, quite uncommon) A woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.
    • 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...2015 January 15, Paige Reddinger, “The Golden Globes 2015: A Full Tapis Rouge Rundown”, in Fashion Week Daily, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2019
    • 'I got my wig out and my globes,' she joked to E! News host Ryan Seacrest, adjusting her breasts.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, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2026
  7. (obsolete) A group.
  8. A land snail of the genus Mesodon.

Verb

globe (third-person singular simple present globes, present participle globing, simple past and past participle globed)

  1. (intransitive) To become spherical.
  2. (transitive) To make spherical.

Proper noun capitalized: Globe

Globe

  1. The Earth.
    • They aspired to circumnavigate the Globe.
  2. The Globe Theatre, the famous theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and performed.
    • They aspired to replicate the Globe.
  3. A city, the county seat of Gila County, Arizona.
  4. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin.

Also used as

globe is also the alternative letter-case form of Globe.

globe meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

globe in Hindi

model of Earth
ग्लोब glob

globe in Marathi

ग्लोब

globe in Urdu

model of Earth
کُرَّۂ اَرْض kurra-yi arz, گْلوب glob

globe in Bengali

গ্লোব
More languagesFewer languages
globe in Telugu
గోళము gōḷamu, భూగోళము bhūgōḷamu
globe in Malayalam
ഗ്ലോബ്
globe in Kannada
ಗ್ಲೋಬ್
globe in Punjabi
ਗਲੋਬ
globe in Gujarati
ગ્લોબ
globe in Odia
ଗ୍ଲୋବ, ଗ୍ଲୋବ୍
globe in Sanskrit
भूगोल bhūgola
globe in Sinhala
භූගෝලය bhūgōlaya
globe in Nepali
ग्लोब
globe in Pashto
غونډاری ǧunḍarai
globe in Tagalog
hilihid, globo
globe in Arabic
كُرَة kura, كُرَةٌ أَرْضِيَّة kuratun ʔarḍiyya
globe in Malay
glob
globe in Indonesian
globe, bola dunia
globe in Thai
ลูกโลก lûuk-lôok, โลก lôok
globe in Vietnamese
quả địa cầu
globe in Myanmar
ကမ္ဘာ kambha, ကမ္ဘာမြေကြီး kambha-mre-kri:, ကမ္ဘာလုံး kambhalum:

Examples of globe in a sentence

  • The Canadian race is one of the most vigorous on the globe.
  • Each day the postal service flies thousands of letters around the globe.
  • The news services flashed the news about the end of the war to all corners of the globe.

All 40 example sentences with globe

Synonyms of globe

Forms of globe

Noun
pluralglobes
Verb
third-person singular presentglobes
present participleglobing
past participleglobed
pastglobed

Plural of globe: globes

Origin of globe

From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus.

Words formed from globe

Phrases with globe

3 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with globe

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about globe

What does globe mean?
Globe means the eyeball.
What is globe in Hindi?
Globe in Hindi is ग्लोब (glob). See Globe meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is globe?
Globe can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce globe?
Globe is pronounced /ɡləʊb/ (UK).
What is the plural of globe?
The plural of globe is globes.

Words near globe in the dictionary

  1. globbier
  2. globbiest
  3. globbiness
  4. globbing
  5. globby
  6. globe
  7. globe algae
  8. globe amaranth
  9. globe amaranths
  10. globe animalcule
  11. globe animalcules

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: globe (page history and authors); Globe (page history and authors); globe (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); globe (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); globe (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); globe (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); globe (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); globe (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); globe (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); globe (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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