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earth

/ɜːθ/ noun

Categories: NaturePlacesEveryday Words

In Latin: terra, humus Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about earth at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on.
    the Earth moves around the sun
  2. The loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface.
    they dug into the earth outside the church
  3. The solid part of the earth's surface.
    the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land

verb

  1. Hide in the earth like a hunted animal.
  2. Connect to the earth.
    earth the circuit

Origin

From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁érteh₂ (“earth”).

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