earth

IPA: ˈɝθ

noun

  • (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.]

verb

  • (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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