globe English · revision 6220

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=late 14th century|origins=la globus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɡləʊb/ ''(UK)''; /ɡloʊb/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|frm|globe]] and directly [[bor|la|globus|t=round mass, sphere; a throng]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) which is related to [[m|la|glēba|t=clod]] (see [[glebe]]) and perhaps to [[m|la|glomus|t=ball of yarn]].^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A large mass: the late 14th century in Etymonline;^(Etymonline) anything round like a ball, a sphere: about 1450 in Barnhart,^(Barnhart 1988) the mid-15th century in Etymonline.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Word Origins notes that globe once covered almost anything globular, from an eyeball to a cannonball to a crowd of people.^(Cresswell 2021) The planet Earth and a sphere with a map of the Earth drawn on it are both first recorded in Richard Eden's ''Treatise of the New India'' (1553).^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) A planet or other heavenly body is from about 1566,^(OED 1989) the golden orb carried with the sceptre as an emblem of sovereignty from 1614,^(OED 1989) and a globe-shaped glass vessel from the 1660s.^(Etymonline) The verb, to form into a globe, is from 1641.^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024) In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa a globe is also a light bulb.^(Collins 2023) The adjective [[global]] meant spherical in 1676 and worldwide by 1892.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * late 14th century – a large mass.^(Etymonline)

+ * c. 1450 – a sphere.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1553 – the Earth; a terrestrial globe.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1614 – the royal orb.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1641 – the verb.^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024)

+ * 1660s – a glass vessel.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[sphere|alt=spherical]] model of the Earth, or of the heavens, with a map on its surface.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''the globe'': the Earth; the world.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A [[planet]] or other heavenly body.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A round object, such as a glass lampshade or fishbowl; in Australia and South Africa, a light bulb.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # An [[orb]] carried as a symbol of royal authority.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To form into a globe.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[globelike]]

+ * [[globefish]]

+ * [[globeflower]]

+ * [[globetrot]]

+ * [[globe-trotter]]

+ * [[globoid]]

+ * [[hemoglobin]]

+ * [[globe amaranth]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[global]]

+ * [[globular]]

+ * [[globule]]

+ * [[glebe]]

+ * [[conglomerate]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The Century Dictionary, quoted by Etymonline, distinguishes the two words: a globe is often solid and a sphere often hollow, and the secondary senses of globe are physical while those of sphere are moral.^(Etymonline) Word Origins adds that [[sphere]] has always been the more academic word.^(Cresswell 2021)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}