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earth mother(dictionary)

earth 1, noun (oh)




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1 ?world?
2 ?soil?
3 ?land?
4 what/why/how etc on earth ...?
5 cost/pay/charge the earth
6 the biggest/tallest/most expensive etc ... on earth
7 ?religion?
8 come back/down to earth (with a bump)
9 no ... /nothing on earth
10 look/feel etc like nothing on earth
11 ?electricity?
12 ?animal's home?
13 go to earth
14 run somebody/something to earth
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[Language: Old English; Origin: eorthe]
?WORLD?
also Earth
[singular, U] the planet that we live on
::the planet Earth
the earth
::The earth revolves around the sun.
the earth's surface/atmosphere/crust etc
::71% of the earth's surface is sea.
on earth
::the origin of life on Earth
?SOIL?
[U] the substance that plants grow in
-synonym soil soil
soft/bare/damp etc earth
::footprints in the wet earth
::a lump of earth
?LAND?
[U] the hard surface of the world, as opposed to the sea or air
-synonym ground ground
::The earth began to shake.
::They watched the kite fall back to earth.
see usage note ground 1
what/why/how etc on earth ...?
spoken used to ask a question when you are very surprised or angry
::What on earth did you do that for?
cost/pay/charge the earth
informal to cost etc a very large amount of money
::It must have cost the earth!
the biggest/tallest/most expensive etc ... on earth
the biggest etc example of something that exists
::the most powerful man on earth
?RELIGION?
[U] used in religion to refer to the time when people are alive as opposed to being in heaven or hell
::Jesus' time on earth
-see also move heaven and earth at heaven (9)
-see also hell on earth at hell 1 (2)
come back/down to earth (with a bump)
to stop behaving or living in a way that is not practical
::She soon brought him back down to earth.
no ... /nothing on earth
used to emphasize that you mean nothing at all
::Nothing on earth would have persuaded me to go.
::There's no reason on earth why you should tell him.
look/feel etc like nothing on earth
BrE to look or feel very strange
::The next morning I felt like nothing on earth.
?ELECTRICITY?
[C usually singular] BrE a wire that makes a piece of electrical equipment safe by connecting it with the ground
American Equivalent: ground
?ANIMAL'S HOME?
[C] the hole where a wild animal such as a fox lives
-see also den den, lair lair
go to earth
BrE to hide in order to escape from someone who is chasing you
-synonym go to ground go to ground
run sb/sth to earth
BrE to find someone, especially by looking in many places
-see also down-to-earth
-see also promise sb the moon/the earth at promise 1 (3)
-see also the salt of the earth at salt 1 (2)