English Explanatory Dictionary

global village

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The world as a single community of interdependent inhabitants who are interconnected by contemporary technology, especially television and the World Wide Web.

Word forms

global village global villages

Etymology

Coined by Marshall McLuhan in 1962.

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