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say it: GLOH-buhl
global is an adjective meaning "involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope". It carries 2 recorded senses.
involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
“global war”
“global monetary policy”
“neither national nor continental but planetary”
“a world crisis”
“of worldwide significance”
having the shape of a sphere or ball
“a spherical object”
“nearly orbicular in shape”
“little globular houses like mud-wasp nests”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for global come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.