earthborn

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   born on or produced by the earth; mortal or terrestrial

   The myth describes the citizens as earthborn people sprung from the soil itself.

2. 2
   adj

   associated with earthly life, concerns, or origins rather than the spiritual or celestial

   The ascetic tried to set aside every earthborn concern.

A compound of earth + born, first used in English in the seventeenth century for beings born on Earth or bound to mortal, earthly existence.

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