earth

IPA: ˈɝθ

(uncountable) Soil.
(uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
(Britain) 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) of an animal such as a fox.
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).
(metonymically) The people on the globe.
Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.
(archaic) The human body.
(alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
(chemistry, obsolete) Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.
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.
Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun. [The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live.]

(UK, transitive) To connect electrically to the earth.
(transitive) To bury.
(transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
(intransitive) To burrow.

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