globeful

noun

Etymology

From globe + -ful.

  1. derived from globus
  2. derived from globe
  3. derived from globe
  4. inherited from globe
  5. formed as globeful — “globe + -ful

Definitions

  1. As much or as many as would fill a globe.

    • The wonderful thing about a zoo is that you can see an entire globeful of nature's inventiveness in a few accessible acres.
    • Climbers a century ago had a globeful of far-flung, virgin summits for the pickings. The contest wasn't about bagging peaks but about facing an unknown, frozen monolith of ice and stone in gear little removed from streetwear.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for globeful. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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