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earth
English
Etymology
From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe (“earth, ground, soil, dry land”), from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþ? (“earth, ground, soil”) (compare West Frisian ierde, Low German Eerd, Dutch aarde, Dutch Low Saxon eerde, German Erde, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord), related to *erwô (“earth”) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse j?rfi), from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (compare Ancient Greek *??? (*éra) in ????? (éraze, “on the ground”), perhaps Tocharian B yare (“gravel”).
Probably unrelated, and of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian ????? (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *?ar??- – whence Arabic ?????? (?ar?), Hebrew ?????? (?ere?) – is probably not related.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???/
- (US) IPA(key): /??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)?
Proper noun
earth
- Alternative letter-case form of Earth; Our planet, third out from the Sun.
Usage notes
- The word earth is capitalized to Earth when used in context with other celestial bodies.
Translations
Noun
earth (countable and uncountable, plural earths)
- (uncountable) Soil.
- (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
- The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
- (Britain) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
- The lair (as a hole on the ground) of an animal such as fox.
- A region of the planet; a land or country.
- Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
- The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
- The people on the globe.
- (archaic) The human body.
- (alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
- (chemistry, obsolete) Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.
Derived terms
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Verb
earth (third-person singular simple present earths, present participle earthing, simple past and past participle earthed)
- (Britain, transitive) To connect electrically to the earth.
- Synonym: ground
- (transitive) To bury.
- (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
- (intransitive) To burrow.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Tickell to this entry?)
Derived terms
- earthing
- unearth
Translations
Anagrams
- Erath, Harte, Heart, Herat, Herta, Taher, Terah, Thera, hater, heart, rathe, rehat, th'are, thare
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midnight
English
Etymology
From Middle English midnight, midnyght, mydnyght, (also as middelni?te), from Old English midniht, middeniht, middeneaht, (also as midderneaht and middelniht), from Proto-Germanic *midjanahts (“midnight”), equivalent to mid- +? night. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Midnoacht (“midnight”), Old High German mittinaht (“midnight”), Danish midnat (“midnight”), Swedish midnatt (“midnight”), Icelandic miðnætti (“midnight”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Middernoacht (“midnight”), Dutch middernacht (“midnight”), German Mitternacht (“midnight”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?dn??t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?d?na?t/
- Hyphenation: mid?night
Noun
midnight (countable and uncountable, plural midnights)
- The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
- 12 o'clock at night exactly.
- Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- "She twisted her hands behind her;
- but all the knots held good!
- She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
- They stretched and strained in the darkness,
- and the hours crawled by like years,
- Till, now, on the stroke of midnight,
- Cold, on the stroke of midnight,
- The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
- Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
Synonyms
- (12 o'clock at night): 12 am; 00:00, 12 a.m. (sometimes proscribed), 12 midnight; see also Thesaurus:midnight
Antonyms
- noon, midday
Derived terms
- burn the midnight oil
- midnight regulation
- midnight sun
- postmidnight
Translations
Adjective
midnight (not comparable)
- (poetic) Utterly dark or black.
See also
- (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)
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