global
pronunciation
How to pronounce global in British English:
UK [ˈɡləʊbl]
How to pronounce global in American English:
US [ˈɡloʊbl]
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- Adjective:
- involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
- having the shape of a sphere or ball
Word Origin
- global (adj.)
- 1670s, "spherical," from globe + -al (1). Meaning "worldwide, universal, pertaining to the whole globe of the earth" is from 1892, from a sense development in French. Global village first attested 1960, popularized, if not coined, by Canadian educator Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980).Postliterate man's electronic media contract the world to a village or tribe where everything happens to everyone at the same time: everyone knows about, and therefore participates in, everything that is happening the minute it happens. Television gives this quality of simultaneity to events in the global village. [Carpenter & McLuhan, "Explorations in Communication," 1960]
Example
- 1. Global markets require multilateral rules .
- 2. Global warming dries out farmland .
- 3. We talk about global warming .
- 4. Global warming certainly will not .
- 5. Global integration has its costs .