• (British) IPA: /ɡləʊb/
• (America) IPA: /ɡloʊb/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ɡloːb/

globe (plural globes)

1. Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.

   the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp

2. The planet Earth.
3. A spherical model of Earth or any planet.
4. (dated or Australia, South Africa) A light bulb.
   • 1920, Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10 (page 26)

     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.

5. A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 2”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.

6. (slang, chiefly, in the plural) A woman's breast.
7. (obsolete) A group.

• (The Earth) Earth, world, Terra, Sol III

• global
• globular

• Portuguese: globo, esfera

• French: Terre, terre
• German: Erde, Erdkugel
• Italian: globo
• Portuguese: globo
• Russian: земно́й шар
• Spanish: globo

• French: globe
• German: Globus
• Italian: globo
• Portuguese: globo
• Russian: гло́бус
• Spanish: globo terráqueo, globo

globe (globes, present participle globing; past and past participle globed)

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

1. A city/county seat in Gila County, Arizona
2. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin