Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

globeful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: globe-ful
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

As much or as many as would fill a globe.

Example Sentences

"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."
"The wonderful thing about a zoo is that you can see an entire globeful of nature's inventiveness in a few accessible acres."
"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."

Etymology

From globe + -ful.

Inflected Forms

globefuls (plural)

Questions

What does globeful mean?: As much or as many as would fill a globe.
Where does globeful come from?: From globe + -ful.

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