{
    "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."
}