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GLOBE
/ɡloʊb/
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What does GLOBE mean?
noun
- The eyeball.
- A spherical model of Earth or of another planet.
- A part of a device, often a lamp.
More meanings (12)
noun
- A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
- (slang) A woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.
- A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
- (dated) A light bulb.
- (obsolete) A group.
verb
- To become spherical.
- To make spherical.
proper noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Globe (“the earth”)
- The Earth.
- The Globe Theatre, the famous theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and performed.
- A city, the county seat of Gila County, Arizona.
- An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɡloʊb/
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Of the three kingdoms which share the terrestrial globe between them, one alone was represented on the lunar and that the mineral.
It was formerly in honor of the goddess Bhavania, who, under various names, was once worshipped in every country of the globe.
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It has been gravely stated that these airships could accomplish the circuit of the globe and perform other feats of the imagination.
In order to obviate the use of the valve, he had placed inside the balloon a smaller globe, filled with ordinary air.
The world was made in the form of a globe, and all the material elements were exhausted in the work of creation.