global village
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The world as a single community of interdependent inhabitants who are interconnected by contemporary technology, especially television and the World Wide Web.
Example Sentences
- "But certainly the electro-magnetic discoveries have recreated the simultaneous “field” in all human affairs so that the human family now exists under conditions of a “global village.”"
- "McLuhan believes that the world is rapidly becoming a "global village," in which mankind communicates in a supermodern version of the way tribal societies were once related."
- "Because the novel is so rooted in time and place, some of the events seem a bit outdated. However, Mitchell draws such explicit connections between these events, gay liberation, feminism and leftist politics in general that the book rises above its setting to make very clear comments about the global village as it is today."