[Sửa]Globe, mother earth, planet, world, blue planet, Terra:Ozone depletion in the upper atmosphere may be threatening lifeon earth. 2 soil, dirt, loam, sod, clay, turf, ground, mould:Pack the earth firmly around the roots.
[Sửa]A (also Earth) one of the planets of the solarsystem orbiting about the sun between Venus and Mars; the planeton which we live. b land and sea, as distinct from sky.
[Sửa]Adry land; the ground (fell to earth). b soil, clay, mould. cbodily matter (earth to earth).
[Sửa]Relig. the present abode ofmankind, as distinct from heaven or hell; the world.
[Sửa]Brit.Electr. the connection to the earth as an arbitrary referencevoltage in an electrical circuit.
[Sửa]A sensual and maternal woman.earth-nut any of various plants, or its edible roundish tuber,esp.: 1 an umbelliferous woodland plant, Conopodium majus.
[Sửa]The peanut. earth sciences the sciences concerned with theearth or part of it, or its atmosphere (e.g. geology,oceanography, meteorology). earth-shattering colloq. having atraumatic or devastating effect. earth-shatteringly colloq.devastatingly, remarkably. earth tremor see TREMOR n.
[Sửa]. goneto earth in hiding. on earth colloq. existing anywhere;emphatically (the happiest man on earth; looked like nothing onearth; what on earth?).
[Sửa]Earthward adj. & adv. earthwardsadv. [OE eorthe f. Gmc]