Meaning

Pertaining to earth or the material world; earthly, terrestrial (as opposed to heavenly or marine)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Pertaining to earth or the material world; earthly, terrestrial (as opposed to heavenly or marine).
2. (science fiction) Made of matter (as opposed to antimatter).
3. (poetic) The Earth's surface; the earth; the ground.
4. Dated form of tureen.

Example Sentences

God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene.

Even Crovvns and Diadems, the moſt ſplendid parts of terrene attains; are akin to that, vvhich to day is in the field, and to morrovv is cut dovvn, and vvither'd: […]

The common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our terrene experience

One had never thought of the sea as the great place of safety, but now it came over one that there is no place so safe from the land. When it does not give you trouble it takes it away—takes away letters and telegrams and newspapers and visits and duties and efforts, all the complications, all the superfluities and superstitions that we have stuffed into our terrene life.

Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ’s terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.

For the earth was both celestial and terrene, the down here and the up there.

Tenfold the length of this terrene

March 27, 1760, Horace Walpole, letter to George Montagu Esq. Execrable varnished pictures, chests, cabinets, commodes, tables, stands, boxes, riding on one another's backs, and loaded with terrenes, filligree, figures, and everything upon earth

Word Forms

• more terrene
• most terrene
• terrenes

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