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
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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
The object of the Lesser Mysteries was to signify occultly the condition of the impure soul invested with a terrene body and merged in a material nature.
From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Dudley Wright
Sometimes these angels are vested in terrene habiliments, as in the annexed cut, from a drawing of a sculptured stone among the ruins of Robertsbridge Abbey.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
The specialised forms of terrene perception were not real novelties in the universe, but imperfect adaptations of protoplasm to the manifestation of the indwelling general perceptive power.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
It was quite wonderful to hear such a stream of learning, and to see, at the same time, the vigour of these terrene philosophers in polishing their specimens upon a whetstone, laid upon their knees.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
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