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globe noun [ ɡləʊb ]

• the earth.
• "goods from all over the globe"
Similar: world, earth, universe, planet, orb,
• a spherical or rounded object.
• "orange trees clipped into giant globes"
Similar: sphere, orb, ball, spheroid, round, globule, spherule,
• a lightbulb.

globe verb

• form (something) into a globe.
• "there, in miniature, the world was globed like a fruit"
Origin: late Middle English (in the sense ‘spherical object’): from Old French, or from Latin globus .


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