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.
Examples of "earth" in Sentences
- The other half of the earth is the land hemisphere.
- The indigenous life of the earth is the life on Earth.
- The indigenous essence of the earth is the earth itself.
- Terrestrial refers to things related to the land or the Earth.
- The Middle world means the earth and the rest of the universe.
- The Earth Dragon is the great provider and the spirit of the earth.
- Firstly there are very few places on Earth that lack ground undulation.
- Creatively speaking, in the real world, it is a reimagining of Earth 616.
- Earth is the location of the Earth Alliance and EarthGov in the universe.
- The inhabitants of Earth have only fleeting memories of how the world once was.