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global village

American  

noun

  1. the world, especially considered as the home of all nations and peoples living interdependently.

global village British  

noun

  1. the whole world considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being interdependent economically, socially, and politically

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global village Cultural  

  1. A phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan to describe the world that has been “shrunk” by modern advances in communications. McLuhan likened the vast network of communications systems to one extended central nervous system, ultimately linking everyone in the world.

Etymology

Origin of global village

Term introduced by the book War and Peace in the Global Village (1968) by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore

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