Earth

/ɜːθ/ · name

Meaning

Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun..

Definitions by Sense

1. Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun.
2. (uncountable) Soil.
3. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
4. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
5. (British) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
6. The lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a fox.
7. A region of the planet; a land or country.
8. Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.

Example Sentences

The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.

We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

This is good earth for growing potatoes.

She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.

Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.

Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one ſpeach.

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Word Forms

• airth
• erd
• yearth
• earths
• earthing
• earthed

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