Earthling

See also: earthling

English

Alternative forms

• earthling

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English *erthling, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English yrþling, ierþling, eorþling (“husbandman, farmer, ploughman”, literally “one of the earth”), equivalent to earth +‎ -ling and/or Earth +‎ -ling. Cognate with Dutch aardling (“Earthling”), German Erdling (“Earthing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɜːθ.lɪŋ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɝθ.lɪŋ/

• Audio (AU):

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• Hyphenation: Earth‧ling

Noun

Earthling (plural Earthlings)

1. (especially science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Earth.
2. (LGBT, slang, rare) A lesbian woman.

Synonyms

• Earthican (nonstandard, humorous, science fiction), Terran, Tellurian, see also Thesaurus:Earthling

Antonyms

• alien, extraterrestrial, see also Thesaurus:extraterrestrial

Hypernyms

• Solarian

Hyponyms

• Earthboy, Earthgirl, Earthman, Earthwoman

Translations

inhabitant of the planet Earth

• Arabic: أَرْضِيّ (ʔarḍiyy)
• Basque: lurtar
• Bulgarian: човек (bg) m (čovek), жител на Земята (žitel na Zemjata)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地球人 (dìqiúrén)

• Czech: Pozemšťan m
• Danish: jordbo (da) c
• Dutch: Aardbewoner m
• Esperanto: terano
• Finnish: Maan asukas
• French: terrien (fr) m, terrienne (fr) f
• German: Erdling (de) m, Terraner m, Terranerin f
• Greek: γήινος (el) m (gíinos)
• Hungarian: földlakó
• Icelandic: jarðarbúi m
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• Indonesian: makhluk bumi
• Italian: terrestre (it) m
• Japanese: 地球人 (ちきゅうじん, chikyūjin)
• Korean: 지구인 (ko) (jigu'in) (地球人 (ko))
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: земјанин m (zemjanin)
• Polish: Ziemianin (pl) m, Ziemianka (pl) f
• Portuguese: terráqueo (pt) m, terrestre (pt) m or f
• Romanian: pământean (ro) m, pământeană f
• Russian: земля́нин (ru) m (zemljánin)
• Serbo-Croatian: Земљанин m (Zemljanin), Земљанка f (Zemljanka)
• Spanish: terrícola (es) m or f, terrestre (es) m or f, terráqueo (es) m
• Swedish: jordbo (sv) c
• Vietnamese: người Trái đất
• Welsh: daearolyn m

See also

• hatchling
• Marsling, marsling

Anagrams

• haltering, heartling, lathering, real thing