earth

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell)

   it was hell on earth

2. 2
   noun

   the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface

   they dug into the earth outside the church

3. 3
   verb

   connect to the earth

   earth the circuit

4. 4
   name

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

   The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.

5. 5
   noun

   Soil.

   This is good earth for growing potatoes.

6. 6
   noun

   Any general rock-based material.

   She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.

7. 7
   noun

   The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).

   Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.

8. 8
   noun

   The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).

   "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Etymology

From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁érteh₂ (“earth”). Cognates Cognate with Scots erd, yerd, yird, yirth (“earth, loam, mould, soil; ground”), Yola eard, eart, eord, eorth, erth (“earth”), North Frisian eerd, eerde, iarde, Iart, iir, jard, örd, Öört (“earth; world”), Saterland Frisian Idde, Äid, Äide (“earth; soil; ground”), West Frisian ierde (“earth; soil; ground”), Alemannic German Ëërde (“earth”), Bavarian Erd, Erdn (“world; soil; ground”), Central Franconian Ääd (“…