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 their first day's breakfast on the new regimen, the old woman treated them with a terrene of oatmeal gruel.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Weems, Mason Locke
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)
Apollion: I have, Lord Belzebub, The low terrene observed with keenest eye.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
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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