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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

  1. 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)

  1. (uncountable) Soil.
  2. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
  3. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
  4. (Britain) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
  5. The lair (as a hole on the ground) of an animal such as fox.
  6. A region of the planet; a land or country.
  7. Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
  8. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
  9. The people on the globe.
  10. (archaic) The human body.
  11. (alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
  12. (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

Translations

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Verb

earth (third-person singular simple present earths, present participle earthing, simple past and past participle earthed)

  1. (Britain, transitive) To connect electrically to the earth.
    Synonym: ground
  2. (transitive) To bury.
  3. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
  4. (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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rockfill

English

Etymology

rock +? fill

Noun

rockfill (countable and uncountable, plural rockfills)

  1. A dam's embankment of compacted free-draining granular earth, often containing rocks, with an impervious zone.

Anagrams

  • frollick

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