Earthling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɜːθlɪŋ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Earthling is a noun meaning Alternative letter-case form of Earthling.
Meaning
Alternative letter-case form of Earthling.
More Meanings
- (obsolete except historical) One who tills the earth; a farmer, a husbandman, a ploughman.
Example Sentences
Eoꞃðlinᵹ [Eorthling], is a Husbandman, or Earthling.
VVe (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmoſt ſubiects, the laſt (in a manner) that he bought to his obedience: ſhal we then forgette that vvee are any ſubiects of hys, becauſe (as amongſt his Angels) he is not viſibly conuerſant amongſt vs?
And we have not imagination enough to believe, that either the Danish boors, who were earthlings (yrthlingas) in the country, or the Danish soldiers, who, as history tells us, were dandies at the court of King Canute, could, in the brief space of twenty years, have so overlaid or interlarded the pure Anglo-Saxon with their provincialisms, as to give it a new character, and thus form a new period in its history, as was afterwards done by the Normans.
Word Forms
- earthlings
Synonyms for earthling
Depending on context, synonyms include tellurian.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tellurian, earth, land, man, terrestrian, terrestrial.
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