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say it: glohb
globe is a noun meaning "the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
“the Earth moves around the sun”
“he sailed around the world”
a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented
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 globe 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.