Meaning

1 senses

  1. One who tills the earth; a farmer, a husbandman, a ploughman.

More definitions
  • an inhabitant of the earth

Examples

17 sentences

  1. Sometimes I fail to understand your earthling ways.

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  2. Earthlings became under alien surveillance that prevented a major war.

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  3. I am an Earthling.

    Я - землянин.

    ruЯ землянин.

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  4. I'm an earthling.

    ruЯ землянин.

    deIch bin ein Bewohner der Erde.

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  5. Blessings to all earthlings!

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Origin

From Middle English erthling (“farmer, ploughman”) [and other forms] (in glossaries), from

From Middle English erthling (“farmer, ploughman”) [and other forms] (in glossaries), from Old English ierþling, eorþling (“farmer, husbandman, ploughman”) [and other forms], from eorþe (“ground; dirt; planet Earth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (“earth”)) + -ling (suffix forming personal nouns). The English word is analysable as earth + -ling.

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Forms

plural: earthlings
Singularearthling
Pluralearthlings

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedearth

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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