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globeful en · NOUN

Etymology

From globe + -ful.

Meanings

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. 1992, Janine M. Benyus, Beastly Behaviors: A Zoo Lovers Companion, Reading, M.A. […]: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 3:
   • 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. 2004 October 5, Jenny Dubin, “Serial summit disorder”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2023:
   • Even in her daze of misery she was conscious of that keen thrill as she stood in the radiance. Shaft of dense black above its center, quivering circles on the asphalt set in circles of black. Off into the city's heart the great globefuls of white fire marked wide way. 1918, Louise Dunham Goldsberry, “Out of the Depths”, in Ted: And Some Other Stories, Boston, M.A.: The Gorham Press, page 146:

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