earth

Meaning

Name

Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun.

Noun

1. (uncountable) Soil.
2. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
3. (countable, uncountable) The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
4. (British, countable, uncountable) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
5. (countable, uncountable) The lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a fox.
6. (countable, uncountable) A region of the planet; a land or country.
7. (countable, uncountable) Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
8. (countable, uncountable) The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
9. (countable, metonymically, uncountable) The people on the globe.
10. (countable, uncountable) Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.
11. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The human body.
12. (countable, uncountable) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
13. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.

Verb

1. (UK, transitive) To connect electrically to the earth.
2. (transitive) To bury.
3. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
4. (intransitive) To burrow.

Synonyms

soil

ground

land

world

🗺️

dirt

clay

globe

mud

country

dust

Earth

field

universe

fire

🔥

floor

terra firma

sand

loam

ball

mould

solid ground

surface

planet

earthen

ashen

dry land

ground

lower world

earthly concern

clod

Mother Earth

worldly concern

territory

deathly pale

terrestrial

basis

sphere

hades

place

plain

earthy

meadow

earthly

mold

level ground

earth connection

drey

down

burrow

grounds

Translations

terre

tierra

Erde

terra

sol

aarde

terra

terra

banco

terra

Boden

γη

suelo

toprak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɜːθ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: erthe

Inherited from Old English: eorþe

Cognate with Western Frisian: ierde

Cognate with Low German: Eerd

Cognate with Dutch: aarde

Cognate with German: Erde

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Swedish: -

Cognate with Norwegian: jord

Cognate with Old High German: ero

Cognate with Old Norse: jǫrfi

Cognate with Ancient Greek: *ἔρα, “earth”

Cognate with Tokharian B: yare

In summary

From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”) (compare Scots erd, yerd, yird, yirth (“earth, loam, mould, soil; ground”), North Frisian eerd, jard, Öört (“earth”), Saterland Frisian Idde, Äid, Äide (“earth; soil; ground”), West Frisian ierde (“earth; soil; ground”), Cimbrian èerda (“earth”), Dutch aarde (“earth”), Dutch Low Saxon eerde (“earth”), German Erde (“earth; soil; ground; world”), German Low German Eer (“earth”), Luxembourgish Äerd (“earth; soil”), Vilamovian Ād (“earth”), Yiddish ערד (erd, “earth; soil”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish jord (“earth”), Faroese jørð (“earth”), Icelandic jörð (“earth”)), related to *erwô (“earth”) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse jǫrfi), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (compare Ancient Greek *ἔρα (*éra, “earth”) in ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground, to earth”), perhaps Tocharian B yare (“gravel”).
Probably unrelated, but of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably unrelated.

Sentences

But the Judge of all the earth will surely do right .

" Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him ," his heart said .

The sails would then have gradually raised the spacecraft to a higher earth orbit .

Our earth is geologically active , while other planets in the solar system are not .

They're only made of rock crystal , and there are millions of rock crystals in the earth .