terra
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7.4
- noun
- /ˈtɛrə/
- Literature
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tierra
- Then her eyes adjusted, and she saw the bulky terra-cotta pot overflowing with a leggy silver-green plant.
- terra cotta
- terra incognita
- terra preta
It was playing on the word Verde in Terra, so green earth.
- It was playing on the word Verde in Terra, so green earth.
Examples
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In a ramshackle truck, the group travels along recently constructed highways into the terra firme uplands of Amazonia.
Academic text (1993) -
The stone is incandescent in the white light, as is the terra rossa beneath it: barbed, sunbaked, hard-visaged stone.
Fiction book (1993) -
This is the largest group of terra-cotta warriors I have found.
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Do you not find the history of the terra cotta warriors to be fascinating?
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The law is still on the side of the lawmakers and everything revolves around their terra firma.
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As the water moves through the terra filter, it is purified before it is intermingled with a tributary.
Academic text (2011) -
Petunias wilted in a huge terra cotta pot each day at noon.
Fiction book (1996) -
PHOTO (COLOR): A seventh-century terra-cotta doll from central Greece is the model for Olympic mascots Phebos and Athina.
Academic text (2004) -
Fusconi retrieved fragments of marble, porphyry, and serpentine, mosaic tesserae, bricks, nails, and terra-cotta pipes.
Academic text (2002) -
The scientists studied the composition of the terra beneath the ancient ruins.
Synonyms
713
6.5
A place where a particular quality or activity is common
363
1.0
The world where people live, not Heaven or Hell
4
5.6
Solid dry land that is not the sea or air
Idioms
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word terra comes from Latin and means 'land' or 'earth'. You can see the same root in English words like terrain and territory, so terra still refers to land, the natural world, or a homeland.