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earth⋅ling

  [urth-ling]
–noun
1. an inhabitant of earth; mortal.
2. worldling.
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Origin:
1585–95; earth + -ling 1
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earth·ling   (ûrth'lĭng)   
n.  

  1. One, especially a human, that inhabits the planet Earth.

  2. A person devoted to the world; a worldling.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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earthling 
O.E. eyrþling "plowman" (see earth); the sense of "inhabitant of the earth" is from 1593. Earthman was originally (1860) "a demon who lives in the earth;" science fiction sense of "inhabitant of the planet Earth" first attested 1949 in writing of Robert Heinlein.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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