- the globe[singular] the world (used especially to emphasize its size)
- tourists from every corner of the globe
Extra ExamplesTopics People in societyb2- Athletes from every corner of the globe competed in the Games.
- Chess fans around the globe watched the match with breathless interest.
- Motor vehicles are found all over the globe.
- She travelled the globe in search of good writers of children's stories.
- The boats are capable of circling the globe in 65 days.
- The news soon spread across the globe.
- a commercial service that will soon span the globe
- one of the first boats to circumnavigate the globe
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- entire
- span
- circle
- circumnavigate
- …
- across the globe
- all over the globe
- around the globe
- …
- all parts of the globe
- every corner of the globe
- [countable] an object like a ball in shape with a map of the world on its surface, usually on a stand so that it can be turned
- A dusty old globe stood in the corner of the schoolroom.
- Find Laos on the globe.
- On his desk was a globe and several maps.
- [countable] a thing that is like a ball in shape
- (Australian English, New Zealand English) a light bulb (= the glass part that fits into an electric lamp, etc. to give light when it is switched on)
- Halogen globes are being replaced with LEDs, which use 80 per cent less energy.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘spherical object’): from Old French, or from Latin globus.
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