Definition of Globe

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Definition of Globe

Globe

A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.

Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.

The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article.

A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe.

A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle; -- a military formation used by the Romans, answering to the modern infantry square.

To gather or form into a globe.

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Globe Quotations

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
Muhammad Yunus

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Adlai E. Stevenson

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry A. Kissinger

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
Jules Verne

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
Billy Corgan

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
Abdallah II

Globe Translations

globe in Dutch is bol, kogel, bal, kloot
globe in Finnish is pallo
globe in French is globe
globe in German is Globus, Kugel, Erdball
globe in Italian is globo, orbe terracqueo
globe in Norwegian is globus
globe in Portuguese is globo
globe in Swedish is glob, klot

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