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earthling

[ urth-ling ]

noun

  1. an inhabitant of earth; mortal.


earthling

/ ˈɜːθlɪŋ /

noun

  1. (esp in poetry or science fiction) an inhabitant of the earth; human being


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Word History and Origins

Origin of earthling1

First recorded in 1585–95; earth + -ling 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of earthling1

C16: from earth + ling 1

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Example Sentences

Aerial love is but an earthling still, It must come down for food or mortal die, And what but virtues feed it?

Forential had shown him pictures of female Lyrians; and this girl—but for the fact she was an earthling—would have been beautiful.

The normal earthling is just like you are right now: unable to use more than one sixth of his brain.

Come closer, Earthling, the manythoughts spoke inside his head, soothingly.

Perhaps, he thought, he was more of an Earthling than three generations of Martian heredity made likely.

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