globe

Etymology

From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus.

noun

1. Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
   the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp
2. The planet Earth.
   But whatever opinion or theory may be formed by any one, all agree that at some period or other this world has been destroyed by water, and that the proofs of this assertion are found in every part of the globe 1866, John Locke, A System of Theology
   Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements. 2013-07-19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18
3. A spherical model of Earth or other planet.
4. (dated or Australia, South Africa) A light bulb.
   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
5. A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
6. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
7. (obsolete) A group.
8. A land snail of the genus Mesodon

verb

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