Definition of "earth"

earth

/ɜːθ/

proper noun
1. Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun.
  Quotations
  We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
  1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], part I, page 193
noun
countable and uncountable, plural earths
1. (uncountable) Soil.
2. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
3. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
  Quotations
  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.
  2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
4. (Britain) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
5. The lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a 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).
  Quotations
  "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
  1819 May, John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, stanza 5, page 116
9. (metonymically) The people on the globe.
  Quotations
  And the whole earth was of one language, and of one ſpeach.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 11:1, column 2
10. Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.
11. (archaic) The human body.
12. (alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
13. (chemistry, obsolete) Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.
verb
third-person singular simple present earths, present participle earthing, simple past and past participle earthed
1. (UK, transitive) To connect electrically to the earth.
2. (transitive) To bury.
  Quotations
  The Miſer earths his Treaſure; and the Thief, / Watching the Mole, half-beggars him ere Morn.
  1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, page 328
3. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
  Quotations
  […] the Fox is earth’d, […]
  1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], Act IV, page 48
  This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set.
  1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion
4. (intransitive) To burrow.
  Quotations
  foxes earth'd
  a. 1740, Thomas Tickell, Fragment on Hunting

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