/glɔ.bal/
Translation
global, overall
Word origin
From English global, itself built on Latin globus ('sphere, ball'). French borrowed the word back from English in the twentieth century.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- globus
- English cognates
- globe, globular
Grammar
Examples
réchauffement climatique .
Global warming is a global problem.
.
We need to look at the situation in an overall way.
l' .
The company's overall results are good this year.
Mind the irregular masculine plural: adjectives ending in -al usually switch to -, so it's , not . is the closer everyday word for "global" in a world sense ( ); global leans towards "overall, taken as a whole".
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