global

From globe +‎ -al; compare French global.

• enPR: glō'bəl
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡləʊ.bəl/, [ˈɡləʊ̯b(ə)ɫ]

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡloʊ.bəl/, [ˈɡloʊ̯b(ə)ɫ]
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɐʉ.bəl/, [ˈɡlɐʉb(ə)ɫ]
• (India) IPA^(key): /ɡloː.bəl/, [ˈɡloːbɐl]
• Rhymes: -əʊbəl
• Hyphenation: glo‧bal

global (comparative more global, superlative most global)

1. Concerning all parts of the world.
   • 2003, Catherine Dupré, Importing the law in post-communist transitions, page 169:

     Some rights are more global than others; social rights in particular do not seem to globalise easily.

   • 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:

     It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].

   Pollution is a global problem.

   World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the War on Terror are global conflicts.

2. (not comparable) Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal:
   • 2013 December 30, Matthew Katze, Don Crawford, Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud‎^[1], →ISBN, page 366:

     The first account that is created when you sign up is the global Administrator.

   1. (not comparable, computing) Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.

      Global variables keep support engineers employed.

   2. Which has to be considered in its entirety.
3. Spherical, ball-shaped.

   In the center was a small, global mass.

4. (not comparable) Of or relating to a globe or sphere.

• (concerning all parts of the world): world-wide, planetary
• (spherical): ball-shaped, globular, round, spherical
• (of or relating to a globe or sphere):

• (antonym(s) of “concerning all parts of the world”): domestic, national, local, regional
• (antonym(s) of “of a variable, in computing”): local

global (plural globals)

1. (computing) A globally scoped identifier.

• local

global (comparative more global, superlative most global)

1. In the global manner; world-wide.
   • 2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122:

     Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

• “global”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• global in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “global”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• global on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From globus +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ɡluˈβal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ɡloˈbal]

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global m or f (masculine and feminine plural globals)

1. global (concerning all parts of the world)

• globalitzar
• globalment

• “global”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “global”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “global” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “global”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From globe (“globe”) +‎ -al, from Latin globus (“globe, sphere”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɔ.bal/

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• Homophones: globale, globales

global (feminine globale, masculine plural globaux, feminine plural globales)

1. (originally) global, spherical; (hence) concerning the whole world
2. as a whole, on the whole; total

• (spherical): globulaire, sphérique
• (worldwide): mondial

• (antonym(s) of “worldwide”): local, régional
• (antonym(s) of “on the whole”): particulier, spécifique

• globalement
• globaliser
• globalisme
• globaliste

• globe
• globulare

• → Romanian: global
• → Turkish: global

• “global”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

global m or f (plural globais)

1. global

• globo

• “global”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Glob(us) +‎ -al

• IPA^(key): /ɡloˈbaːl/

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• Rhymes: -aːl

global (strong nominative masculine singular globaler, not comparable)

1. global (worldwide)

   Synonym: weltweit

   Antonyms: lokal, regional

• globalgalaktisch
• globale Erwärmung
• Globalismus

• Globus

• “global” in Duden online
• “global”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)

Borrowed from Dutch globaal, from French global, globe, from Latin globus (“globe, sphere”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlobal/ [ˈɡlo.bal]
• Rhymes: -obal
• Syllabification: glo‧bal

global (comparative lebih global, superlative paling global)

1. general, not precise, rough

   Synonym: kasar

2. global, worldwide

   Synonym: mendunia

• “global”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From the noun globus.

global (neuter singular globalt, definite singular and plural globale)

1. global

• verdensomspennende

• global oppvarming

• “global” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From the noun globus.

global (neuter singular globalt, definite singular and plural globale)

1. global

• global oppvarming

• “global” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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global m (feminine singular globala, masculine plural globals, feminine plural globalas)

1. global (concerning all parts of the world)

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: glo‧bal

From globo (“globe”) +‎ -al (“of or relating to”).

global m or f (plural globais)

1. global (concerning all parts of the world)

   Synonym: mundial

2. (computing, of a variable) global (accessible by all parts of a program)

• globalizar
• globalmente

From Globo +‎ -al.

global m or f (plural globais)

1. (Brazil, of artists) working, having worked, or with potential to work, with Globo (Brazilian television network)

   uma atriz global ― a Globo actress

2. (Brazil) of or relating to Globo

• “global”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “global”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French global. Equivalent to glob +‎ -al.

global m or n (feminine singular globală, masculine plural globali, feminine/neuter plural globale)

1. global

• IPA^(key): /ɡloˈbal/ [ɡloˈβ̞al]

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: glo‧bal

global m or f (masculine and feminine plural globales)

1. global (concerning all parts of the world)

   Synonym: mundial

   Antonym: local

global m (plural globales)

1. (sports) aggregate (the total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores)

   Synonym: resultado global

• “global”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

glob +‎ -al

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global (not comparable)

1. global, spanning the entire globe, the whole world, international, universal

• globalisera

• “global”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)