terra

American  

[ter-uh] / ˈtɛr ə /

noun

1. earth; land.

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terra British  

/ ˈtɛrə /

noun

1. (in legal contexts) earth or land

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terra Scientific  

/ tĕr′ə /

1. A rough highland or mountainous region of the moon with a relatively high albedo.

2. Compare mare

3. A vast highland region on a planet.

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Etymology

Origin of terra

Borrowed into English from Latin around 1605–15

Example Sentences

The piece ends with the Performance Artist realizing that the boat she built out of garbage is too small to save everyone; a children’s chorus arrives and sings “Et in terra pax” from a Vivaldi “Gloria.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The suit also alleged that Jump’s DiSomma called leaders at various other crypto trading firms to seek bailout funding for Terra.

From The Wall Street Journal

The 30-year-old man driving a gray minivan was speeding while traveling westbound on Terra Bella Street at about 9:35pm, when he ran a red light at the intersection of Woodman Avenue and collided with a blue mustang and a tan Civic that were both traveling southbound, according to police.

From Los Angeles Times

In this forbidding climate, Genly Ai, an emissary from Terra, another planet, struggles to understand a place where gender roles, modes of communication and beliefs are entirely different from those at home.

From The Wall Street Journal

Startup founder and Stanford alumnus John Mern is taking a similar approach with Terra AI, a startup using AI to help explorers determine when and where to drill by giving them better data on what’s under the earth and how profitable it would be to drill.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• globe
• planet