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How to spell globe

Globe is spelled G-L-O-B-E.

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What it means: A spherical object representing the Earth.

In a sentence: The globe shows all the countries in the world.

Same family: global, globally, globalization, world, planet. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Globe comes from the Latin word "globus," meaning a round body or sphere. The word once described any rounded mass, but over time it became closely associated with models of the Earth.

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