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earth
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What does earth mean?
noun
- Soil.
- Any general rock-based material.
- The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
More meanings (17)
noun
- A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
- The lair or den (as a hole in the ground, or a system of tunnels) of an animal, such as a badger.
- A region of the planet; a land or country.
- Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
- The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
- The people on the globe.
- Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.
- The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
- (archaic) The human body.
- (obsolete) Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.
verb
- To connect electrically to the earth.
- To bury.
- To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
- To burrow.
proper noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Earth (“the third planet of the Solar System, upon which humans live”).
- The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live.
- The personification of the Earth or earth, (chiefly) as a fertile woman or (religion) goddess.
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IPA pronunciation
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And if so, this flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble to its mother earth, to rise no more.
He tried again, this time bringing out a circlet of rhinestones, a glittering crown that should have pleased any woman on earth.
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This earth seemed to her young and fresh and kindly, a place where refugees from old, sad countries were given another chance.
But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything else on earth.
Also I enjoyed luscious fruits and vegetables, but not a single article of food which was exactly similar to anything on Earth.