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From globe +‎ -al; compare French global.

global (comparative more global, superlative most global)

  1. Concerning all parts of the world.
    • 2003, Catherine Dupré, Importing the law in post-communist transitions, page 169:
      Some rights are more global than others; social rights in particular do not seem to globalise easily.
    • 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
      It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
      Pollution is a global problem.
      World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the War on Terror are global conflicts.
  2. (not comparable) Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal:
    • 2013 December 30, Matthew Katze, Don Crawford, Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud‎[1], →ISBN, page 366:
      The first account that is created when you sign up is the global Administrator.
    1. (not comparable, computing) Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.
      Global variables keep support engineers employed.
    2. Which has to be considered in its entirety.
  3. Spherical, ball-shaped.
    In the center was a small, global mass.
  4. (not comparable) Of or relating to a globe or sphere.

spherical

concerning all parts of the world

of a variable, in computing

global (plural globals)

  1. (computing) A globally scoped identifier.

global (comparative more global, superlative most global)

  1. In the global manner; world-wide.
    • 2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122:
      Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

From globus +‎ -al.

global m or f (masculine and feminine plural globals)

  1. global (concerning all parts of the world)

From globe (“globe”) +‎ -al, from Latin globus (“globe, sphere”).

global (feminine globale, masculine plural globaux, feminine plural globales)

  1. (originally) global, spherical; (hence) concerning the whole world
  2. as a whole, on the whole; total

global m or f (plural globais)

  1. global

Glob(us) +‎ -al

global (strong nominative masculine singular globaler, not comparable)

  1. global (worldwide)
    Synonym: weltweit
    Antonyms: lokal, regional

Positive forms of global (uncomparable)

Borrowed from Dutch globaal, from French global, globe, from Latin globus (“globe, sphere”).

global (comparative lebih global, superlative paling global)

  1. general, not precise, rough
    Synonym: kasar
  2. global, worldwide
    Synonym: mendunia

From the noun globus.

global (neuter singular globalt, definite singular and plural globale)

  1. global

From the noun globus.

global (neuter singular globalt, definite singular and plural globale)

  1. global

global m (feminine singular globala, masculine plural globals, feminine plural globalas)

  1. global (concerning all parts of the world)

From globo (“globe”) +‎ -al (“of or relating to”).

global m or f (plural globais)

  1. global (concerning all parts of the world)
    Synonym: mundial
  2. (computing, of a variable) global (accessible by all parts of a program)

From Globo +‎ -al.

global m or f (plural globais)

  1. (Brazil, of artists) working, having worked, or with potential to work, with Globo (Brazilian television network)
    uma atriz global ― a Globo actress
  2. (Brazil) of or relating to Globo

Borrowed from French global. Equivalent to glob +‎ -al.

global m or n (feminine singular globală, masculine plural globali, feminine/neuter plural globale)

  1. global

global m or f (masculine and feminine plural globales)

  1. global (concerning all parts of the world)
    Synonym: mundial
    Antonym: local

global m (plural globales)

  1. (sports) aggregate (the total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores)
    Synonym: resultado global

glob +‎ -al

global (not comparable)

  1. global, spanning the entire globe, the whole world, international, universal

Inflection of global

Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular global — —
neuter singular globalt — —
plural globala — —
masculine plural2 globale — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 globale — —
all globala — —

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.