Dictionary entry details
• GLOBE (noun)
Meaning:
The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Earth; globe; world
Context examples:
the Earth moves around the sun / he sailed around the world
Instance hypernyms:
terrestrial planet (a planet having a compact rocky surface like the Earth's; the four innermost planets in the solar system)
Meronyms (parts of "globe"):
sky (the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth)
geosphere; lithosphere (the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle)
dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface)
hydrosphere (the watery layer of the earth's surface; includes water vapor)
Van Allen belt (a belt of charged particles (resulting from cosmic rays) above the Earth trapped by the Earth's magnetic field)
hemisphere (half of the terrestrial globe)
air; atmosphere (the mass of air surrounding the Earth)
Holonyms ("globe" is a member of...):
solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)
Meaning:
An object with a spherical shape
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
globe; orb; ball
Context example:
a ball of fire
Hypernyms ("globe" is a kind of...):
sphere (a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "globe"):
pellet; spherule (a small sphere)
globule (a small globe or ball)
fireball (a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning))
fireball (the luminous center of a nuclear explosion)
time-ball (a ball that slides down a staff to show a fixed time; especially at an observatory)
camphor ball; mothball (a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing)
crystal ball (a glass or crystal globe used in crystal gazing by fortunetellers)
bolus (a small round soft mass (as of chewed food))
Meaning:
A sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("globe" is a kind of...):
model; simulation (representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale))
sphere (any spherically shaped artifact)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "globe"):
celestial globe (a globe that is a spherical model of the heavens)
