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earthling
/ ˈɜːθlɪŋ /
noun
- (esp in poetry or science fiction) an inhabitant of the earth; human being
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Word History and Origins
Origin of earthling1
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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?
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Forential had shown him pictures of female Lyrians; and this girl—but for the fact she was an earthling—would have been beautiful.
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The normal earthling is just like you are right now: unable to use more than one sixth of his brain.
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Come closer, Earthling, the manythoughts spoke inside his head, soothingly.
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Perhaps, he thought, he was more of an Earthling than three generations of Martian heredity made likely.
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