different between tellurian vs terran

English

Etymology

From Latin tell?s (“earth, ground; the globe, planet Earth; country, land”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *telh?- (“to bear, carry; to endure, undergo”), +? -ian (suffix meaning "from, related to, or like" when forming an adjective, or "one from, belonging to, relating to, or like" when forming a noun).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??lj??.??.?n/, /t?-/, /-?lj??-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??l(j)?.?i.?n/, /t?-/, [t???l??.i?.??n]
• Homophone: tellurion
• Hyphenation: tel?lur?i?an

Adjective

tellurian (not comparable)

1. (formal or literary) Of or relating to the earth; (specifically, chiefly science fiction) inhabiting planet Earth as opposed to other planets. [from mid 19th c.]

   Synonyms: earthly, telluric, terrene, terrestrial
2. (mineralogy) Of a mineral: containing tellurium.

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Translations

Noun

tellurian (plural tellurians)

1. (astronomy, historical) Alternative spelling of tellurion (“instrument used to show how the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun cause day and night and the seasons”)
2. (chiefly science fiction) Alternative letter-case form of Tellurian (“inhabitant of the planet Earth”)

Notes

References

Further reading

• tellurian (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• unliteral

English

Adjective

terran (comparative more terran, superlative most terran)

1. (chiefly science fiction, uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of Terran (“of or from Earth; terrestrial”)
   • 2008, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Louis Neal Irwin, Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 128:

     […] dinitrogen does not have properties that would be considered as suitable for life from a terran perspective (Table 7.2).

   • 2008, Ron Sanders, Legerdemainia, (?ISBN), page 71:

     As they approached the steps the Klee-shaes could hear a terran favorite over the great building's Public Address system—it was Neil Young warbling Keep On Rocking In The Free World, but a Fartian host, misunderstanding the moment, transferred the track to Mollify.

   • 2011, David Weber, How Firm a Foundation: A Novel in the Safehold Series (#5), Macmillan (?ISBN):

     Like most “fish” native to Safehold, it has a very long, sinuous body but the head does resemble a terran hake or cod, with a hooked jaw.

   • 2013, Doug Strider, Space Danger - Space Marines' Graveyard, Douglas Strider (?ISBN):

     Annual Pack Includes:

     Gift pack - SOL30000 a terran year (equivalent to SOL2500/month over the duration of the adoption).

     Personalised certificate.

     Stand-up photo-portrait (14.5 x 200m) of your soldier.

   • 2013, Gordon R. Dickson, Naked to the Stars, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN):

     Cal cut wide in his shoulder jets with a short burst and slid in to earth under a tree so like a terran cottonwood it was hard to tell the difference. The trees on windy hillsides on Lehaunan had been warped and strangely twisted […]

   • 2014, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, St. Martin's Griffin (?ISBN):

     Hobbs' Street smelled odd, damp and sweet, but that wasn't due to the residents here but to an odd mutation of a terran honey fungus that had spread throughout the moon colony, running its mycelia through air vents, electrical ducting or […]

   • 2014, Don Pendleton, New Orleans Knockout, Open Road Media (?ISBN):

     The NASA engineer admiringly dubbed the complete project a “terran module,” comparing it favorably with the best thing yet developed in lunar modules. Bolan liked it, though he was a bit awed by the electronic capabilities of his new warwagon.

Anagrams

• Ranter, Ratner, errant, ranter