A globe is a round model of the Earth that shows continents, oceans, and countries. More generally, it can mean any ball-shaped object or the world itself.
“Globe” comes from Latin “globus,” meaning a ball or sphere. The word was adopted into English through French in the late Middle Ages as people made spherical maps of the Earth.
A globe quietly teaches you that maps are ‘lies’—they flatten a round planet, so sizes and shapes get distorted. That’s why Greenland looks huge on some maps but is much smaller on a globe.
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