global

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English

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Etymology

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From globe +‎ -al; compare French global.

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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.
  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.

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Noun

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global (plural globals)

  1. (computing) A globally scoped identifier.

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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.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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From globus +‎ -al.

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global m or f (masculine and feminine plural globals)

  1. global (concerning all parts of the world)

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French

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Etymology

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

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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

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  • Romanian: global
  • Turkish: global

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Galician

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Adjective

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global m or f (plural globais)

  1. global

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German

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global (strong nominative masculine singular globaler, not comparable)

  1. global (worldwide)
    Synonym: weltweit
    Antonyms: lokal, regional

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  • global” in Duden online
  • global” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch globaal, from French global, globe, from Latin globus (globe, sphere).

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɡlobal]
  • Hyphenation: glo‧bal

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global

  1. general, not precise, rough.
  2. global, worldwide.

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From the noun globus.

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

  1. global

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From the noun globus.

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

  1. global

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Occitan

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

  1. global (concerning all parts of the world)

Portuguese

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  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɡluˈbal/ [ɡluˈβaɫ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɡluˈba.li/ [ɡluˈβa.li]

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

Etymology 1

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

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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)
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Etymology 2

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From Globo +‎ -al.

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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 globala Globo actress
  2. (Brazil) of or relating to Globo

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Romanian

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Etymology

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

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

  1. global

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Spanish

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global m or f (masculine and feminine plural globales)

  1. global (concerning all parts of the world)
    Synonym: mundial
    Antonym: local

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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

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Swedish

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Etymology

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glob +‎ -al

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global (not comparable)

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

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Inflection of global
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular global
Neuter singular globalt
Plural globala
Masculine plural3 globale
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 globale
All globala
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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