adjective
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of or relating to the earth; worldly; mundane
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rare of earth; earthy
noun
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a land
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a rare word for earth
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of terrene
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English from Latin terrēnus “pertaining to earth”; see terra
Vocabulary lists containing terrene
Example Sentences
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Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself.
From Time Magazine Archive
For it denies that all human faculties must have been evoked by terrene experience.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
And is it not noteworthy that our life terrene at certain epochs seems to be made up wholly of these?
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
But first the seeds terrene, since ponderous most And most perplext, in close embraces clung, And towards the centre conglobating sunk.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
There are terrene spirits of the lowest order, who in a certain terrene place are subject to the power of evil demons.
From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Taylor, Thomas
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