Noun: globe
| Singular | globe |
| Plural | globes |
Sample Sentences
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the globe of a lamp
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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. [1920, Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10, page 26:]
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Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed. [1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
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Meanwhile, Jennifer Lopez went with her favorite silhouette: a robe-like dress, barely fastened solely in the areas you actually can’t reveal on the red carpet (remember that famous Versace number at the Grammys?). This year, she wore a silver and cream Zuhair Murad that showed off all of her best assets, which even caused Jeremy Renner to blurt out a comment about her “globes” on stage. [2015 January 15, Paige Reddinger, “The Golden Globes 2015: A Full Tapis Rouge Rundown”, in Fashion Week Daily, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2019:]
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'I got my wig out and my globes,' she joked to E! News host Ryan Seacrest, adjusting her breasts. [2016 January 11, Caitlin O’Toole, “'I got my wig out and my globes': Katy Perry wears big hair and a VERY low-cut pink dress on red carpet”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2026:]
Nouns inflected like globe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus. See: Middle English Nouns '
globe', Latin Nouns '
globus'.