mother earth

American  

noun

1. the earth regarded as the source of all animate and inanimate things.

2. the land or soil.

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Etymology

Origin of mother earth

First recorded in 1580–90

Example Sentences

She read palms, she read tea leaves, she read Mother Earth News and every lurid bodice ripper she could get her hands on, but she could not read her daughter, and so she didn’t notice how much it hurt when she missed things like school plays.

From Literature

Hadid, 62, announced in September that she was preparing to part ways with the picturesque New Hope, Pa., abode, telling Realtor.com at the time that the property had served as a place where she was able to “heal and reconnect with Mother Earth” after her divorce from music mogul David Foster and amid her ongoing battle with Lyme disease.

From MarketWatch

Theresa Sanchez, 66, a retiree from Mexico City who arrived with the help of a cane, said she sees Guadalupe as a connection to Mexico’s Indigenous past and views her pilgrimage to the basilica as a way to “thank Mother Earth for all that she had given us.”

From Los Angeles Times

It also means that anytime I complain about Dad’s standards being too high, Ma opens my left hand and tells me: Mother Earth has blessed you, Kwame Powell.

From Literature

Let me know when Mother Earth gets Kwame a scholarship, he would say.

From Literature