globular
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French globulaire or Medieval Latin globulāris.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡlɑb.jə.lɚ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]globular (comparative more globular, superlative most globular)
- Roughly spherical in shape; globe-shaped.
- 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “A Cosmopolite in a Café”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC, page 33:
- "Nary a spot," interrupted E. R. Coglan, flippantly. "The terrestrial, globular, planetary hunk of matter, slightly flattened at the poles, and known as the Earth, is my abode. […]"
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XV, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 152:
- Podson's globular stare assured any woman that the bargain was sacred. It was solemn, intent, opaque; it was also slightly mesmeric, which is to say that it gave out everything and took in nothing.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 1, in Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 1: Beyond the Zero, page 4:
- Globular lights, painted a dark green, hang from under the fancy iron eaves, unlit for centuries . . .
- Comprising globules.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]roughly spherical
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Noun
[edit]globular (plural globulars)
References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “globular (adj.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ “globular, adj. and n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]globular m or f (plural globulares)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French globulaire.
Adjective
[edit]globular m or n (feminine singular globulară, masculine plural globulari, feminine and neuter plural globulare)
Declension
[edit]Declension of globular
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | globular | globulară | globulari | globulare | ||
definite | globularul | globulara | globularii | globularele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | globular | globulare | globulari | globulare | ||
definite | globularului | globularei | globularilor | globularelor |
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]globular m or f (masculine and feminine plural globulares)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “globular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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