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Earth earth

Spelling: [urth]

IPA: /ɜrθ/

Earth is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in Earth (aehrt).

Definitions for Earth

noun

1. (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
2. the inhabitants of this planet, especially the human inhabitants:
3. this planet as the habitation of humans, often in contrast to heaven and hell:
4. the surface of this planet:
5. the solid matter of this planet; dry land; ground.
6. soil and dirt, as distinguished from rock and sand; the softer part of the land.
7. the hole of a burrowing animal; lair.
8. Chemistry. any of several metallic oxides that are difficult to reduce, as alumina, zirconia, and yttria. Compare alkaline earth, rare earth.
9. Also called earth color. Fine Arts. any of various pigments consisting chiefly of iron oxides and tending toward brown in hue.
10. Chiefly British Electronics. a ground.
11. Archaic. a land or country.

Idioms

1. move heaven and earth. heaven (def 8).
2. on earth, in the world:
3. run to earth, Hunting. to chase (an animal) into its hole or burrow: to search out; track down:

verb (used with object)

1. Chiefly British Electronics. to ground.

Origin of Earth

before 950; Middle English erthe, Old English eorthe; cognate with German Erde, Dutch aarde, Old Norse jǫrth, Danish jord, Gothic airtha

Examples for Earth

I want him to think he ain't got a friend on earth but himself.

That he is afraid to trust banks, and hides his money in the earth.

Woods were shredded, the earth trembled and the ground exploded in showers of stone and red-hot metal splinters.

Their freshness soon withered, on account of the shallowness of the earth.

The earth was like a slumbering babe, smiling in its sleep, because it dreams of Heaven.

They carved a refuge out of the wilderness and then, in 200 years, built it into the most powerful nation on earth.

He don't trust any banks, but keeps his money concealed in the earth.

One is forced to ask, what on earth was Andrew doing hanging out with scantily clad teenagers?

Once giants walked this earth, and some of them were Democrats.

The questions going through my mind are: How on earth are there Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers in the heart of Paris?