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{
"term": "globe",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the world (used especially to emphasize its size)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "tourists from every corner of the globe"
},
{
"text": "Athletes from every corner of the globe competed in the Games."
},
{
"text": "Chess fans around the globe watched the match with breathless interest."
},
{
"text": "Motor vehicles are found all over the globe."
},
{
"text": "She travelled the globe in search of good writers of children's stories."
},
{
"text": "The boats are capable of circling the globe in 65 days."
},
{
"text": "The news soon spread across the globe."
},
{
"text": "a commercial service that will soon span the globe"
},
{
"text": "one of the first boats to circumnavigate the globe"
}
],
"topics": ["People in society"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["entire"],
"verb + the globe": ["span", "circle", "circumnavigate"],
"preposition": [
"across the globe",
"all over the globe",
"around the globe"
],
"phrases": ["all parts of the globe", "every corner of the globe"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "an object like a ball in shape with a map of the world on its surface, usually on a stand so that it can be turned",
"examples": [
{
"text": "A dusty old globe stood in the corner of the schoolroom."
},
{
"text": "Find Laos on the globe."
},
{
"text": "On his desk was a globe and several maps."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a thing that is like a ball in shape",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a light bulb (= the glass part that fits into an electric lamp, etc. to give light when it is switched on)",
"labels": "(Australian English, New Zealand English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Halogen globes are being replaced with LEDs, which use 80 per cent less energy."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɡləʊb/",
"audio": "gl/globe/globe__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɡləʊb/",
"audio": "gl/globe/globe__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘spherical object’): from Old French, or from Latin globus."
}