earth

Alternative letter-case form of Earth (“the third planet of the Solar System, upon which humans live”).alt-of

• The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.

Soil.uncountable

• This is good earth for growing potatoes.

Any general rock-based material.uncountable

• She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.

The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).countableuncountable

• Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.

A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.UKcountableuncountable

The lair or den (as a hole in the ground, or a system of tunnels) of an animal, such as a badger.countableuncountable

• When a new earth is made I have always found the badger appropriate the holes of rabbits, and proceed to excavate, enlarge, and open them out.

A region of the planet; a land or country.countableuncountable

Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.countableuncountable

The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).countableuncountable

• "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

The people on the globe.countablemetonymicallyuncountable

• And the whole earth was of one language, and of one ſpeach.

Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.countableuncountable

• New space telescopes may accelerate the search for other earths that may be out there.

To connect electrically to the earth.UKtransitive

• That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.

To bury.transitive

• The Miſer earths his Treaſure; and the Thief, / Watching the Mole, half-beggars him ere Morn.

To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.transitive

• […]the Fox is earth’d,[…]

To burrow.intransitive

• foxes earth'd