earthling
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5.9
- noun
- /ˈɜrθlɪŋ/
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terrícola
- Earthlings, for instance, live on a solid planet whose average density exceeds 5.5 grams per cubic centimeter.
There's been no hello Earthlings call from the cosmos.
- There's been no hello Earthlings call from the cosmos.
- The place I have felt as an earthling for the first time in my half a century.
- This plunging death debris puts Earthlings at risk of being hit by falling space junk.
- So tricky I could almost think you were a Lord, not just a loblobby earthling.
- But then there's a separate group of Earthlings that go out to the Kuiper Belt and they're miners.
- And then if this theory was true, you just have a big shell with a bunch of irradiated floating earthling corpses in it, which is terrible.
- And you walk around Mother Earth as an Earthling and you, you absorb about half a gauss when you walk barefoot.
- We are Earthlings, and I'll leave the last word to Caleb Scharf, who's the chairman of the astrobiology department in Columbia.
Examples
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Greetings, Earthlings.
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So, Earthlings, I present you with a choice.
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The place I have felt as an earthling for the first time in my half a century.
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The Adam, the earthling, male and female, was made in the image of God.
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Tim, where do Earthlings put their most beautiful and rare animals?
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" I mean, my parents are Earthlings."
Fiction book (2000) -
"No, I guess you'd have to be from Earth to understand the way we Earthlings love our families, our friends, and... and our planet."
Fiction book (1999) -
Lt. Giggywig, you give these simple Earthlings far too much credit.
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The solar system is no stranger to shock waves, though earthlings generally remain oblivious to them.
Academic text (2006) -
As an earthling, she often looked up at the stars and wondered about life beyond her planet.
Synonyms
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9.7
A person who lives on Earth, not on another planet
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9.6
A man from Earth in stories about people from other planets
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8.6
A person from planet Earth, often used as a contrast with aliens
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9.9
A person who lives on Earth
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9.9
A woman who lives on Earth, not on another planet
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Earthling is simply the word earth plus the ending -ling, where -ling shows someone is 'from' or 'connected to' something, like duckling is a young duck. So an earthling is someone 'from Earth', which is why aliens call humans earthlings.