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===Noun===
===Noun===
[[Image:BrownSoil.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Earth as soil (1)]]
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====Derived terms====
====Derived terms====
{{col3|en
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* {{l|en|Blue Earth}}, {{l|en|Blue Earth County}}, {{l|en|Blue Earth River}}
|[[Blue Earth]], [[Blue Earth County]], [[Blue Earth River]]
* {{l|en|diatomaceous earth}}
|diatomaceous earth
* {{l|en|down-to-earth}}
|down-to-earth
* {{l|en|earth closet}}
|earth closet
* {{l|en|Earth Day}}
|Earth Day
* {{l|en|earth mother}}
|earth mother
* {{l|en|Earth Summit}}
|Earth Summit
* {{l|en|earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust}}
|earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust
* {{l|en|earth tone}}
|earth tone
* {{l|en|earthbound}} or [[earth-bound]]
|[[earthbound]], [[earth-bound]]
* {{l|en|earthen}}
|earthen
* {{l|en|earthenware}}
|earthenware
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|earthquake
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|earthling
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* {{l|en|earthquake}}
|earthly
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* {{l|en|earthling}}
* {{l|en|earthly}}
|earthly paradise
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|earthquake
* {{l|en|earthly paradise}}
|earth-shattering
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* {{l|en|earthquake}}
* {{l|en|earth-shattering}}
|earth sign
* {{l|en|earth sign}}
|earth station
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|earthworm
* {{l|en|earth station}}
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|earthy
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* {{l|en|earthworm}}
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|ends of the earth
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* {{l|en|earthy}}
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|flat earther
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* {{l|en|ends of the earth}}
|go to earth
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|Mother Earth
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* {{l|en|flat earther}}s
* {{l|en|go to earth}}
|rare earth
|rare earth mineral
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* {{l|en|Mother Earth}}
* {{l|en|rare earth}}
|run to earth
* {{l|en|rare earth mineral}}
|salt of the earth
* {{l|en|run to earth}}
|scorched earth
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|unearth
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* {{l|en|salt of the earth}}
}}
* {{l|en|scorched earth}}
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* {{l|en|unearth}}
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====See also====
====See also====
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* {{l|en|moon}}
|moon}}
* {{l|en|sun}}
|sun}}
* {{l|en|world}}
|world}}
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{{mid2}}
* {{l|en|⊕}}
|⊕}}
* {{l|en|♁}}
|♁}}
* {{l|en|Appendix:Planets}}
|Appendix:Planets}}
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Revision as of 13:47, 17 August 2019

See also: Earth

English

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English erthe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English eorþe (“earth, ground, soil, dry land”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *erþō (“earth, ground, soil”) (compare West Frisian ierde, Low German Eerd, Dutch aarde, Dutch Low Saxon eerde, German Erde, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord), related to *erwô (“earth”) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse jǫrfi), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (compare Ancient Greek *ἔρα (*éra) in ἔραζε (éraze, “on the ground”), perhaps Tocharian B yare (“gravel”).

Probably unrelated, and of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʾarṣ́- – whence (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably not related.

Pronunciation

A view of Earth from space

Proper noun

earth

  2. Our planet, third out from the Sun; see main entry Earth.
    The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.

Usage notes

  • The word earth is capitalized to Earth when used in context with other celestial bodies.

Translations

our planet, third out from the Sun — see Earth

Noun

earth (countable and uncountable, plural earths)

  1. (uncountable) Soil.
    This is good earth for growing potatoes.
  2. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
    She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.
  3. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
      Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
    Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.
  4. (British) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
  5. The lair (as a hole on the ground) of an animal such as fox.
  6. A region of the planet; a land or country.
  7. Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
  8. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
  9. The people on the globe.
  10. (archaic) The human body.
  11. (alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
  12. (chemistry, obsolete) Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.

Derived terms

Translations

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See also

|moon}} |sun}} |world}} Template:mid2 |⊕}} |♁}} |Appendix:Planets}}

Verb

earth (third-person singular simple present earths, present participle earthing, simple past and past participle earthed)

  1. (UK, transitive) To connect electrically to the earth.
    Synonym: ground
    That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.
  2. (transitive) To bury.
    • Young
      The miser earths his treasure, and the thief, / Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon.
  3. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
    • Dryden
      The fox is earthed.
  4. (intransitive) To burrow.
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