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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthly |
| Synonyms: | alluvial, carnal, corporeal, earthbound, earthen, earthy, geotic, global, human, in all creation, material, mortal, mundane, nonspiritual, physical, profane, secular, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrestrial, uncelestial, under the sun, unspiritual, worldly |
| Main Entry: | earthly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically concerning land or its inhabitants |
| Synonyms: | alluvial, carnal, corporeal, geotic, global, human, in all creation, material, mortal, mundane, nonspiritual, physical, profane, secular, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, uncelestial, under the sun, unspiritual, worldly |
| Notes: | earthy is 'similar to earth; hearty' or 'coarse, vulgar' while earthly is 'pertaining to human existence on earth'; earthen means 'made of earth or clay' |
| Antonyms: | heavenly, immaterial, spiritual, unearthly |
| Main Entry: | globe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | Earth, sphere |
| Synonyms: | apple, ball, balloon, big blue marble, map, orb, planet, rondure, round, spheroid, terrene, world |
| Main Entry: | planet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celestial body orbiting a star |
| Synonyms: | apple, asteroid, earth, globe, heavenly body, luminous body, marble, orb*, planetoid, sphere, terrene, wandering star, world |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | terrestrial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthly |
| Synonyms: | earthbound, earthlike, earthy, global, mundane, physical, profane, prosaic, secular, sublunary, subsolar, telluric, temporal, terrene, uncelestial, unspiritual, worldly |
| Antonyms: | cosmic, heavenly, otherworldly |
| Main Entry: | territory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | domain, region |
| Synonyms: | area, belt, block, boundary, colony, commonwealth, country, district, dominion, empire, enclave, exclave, expanse, extent, field, land, mandate, nation, neck of the woods, neighborhood, province, quarter, section, sector, sphere, state, stomping grounds, street, terrain, terrene, township, tract, turf*, walk, zone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | world |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | planet, globe |
| Synonyms: | cosmos, creation, earth, heavenly body, macrocosm, microcosm, nature, sphere, star, terrene, universe |
| Main Entry: | worldly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | material, nonreligious |
| Synonyms: | carnal, earthly, earthy, fleshly, human, lay, materialistic, mundane, natural, physical, practical, profane, secular, sublunary, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, ungodly |
| Antonyms: | immaterial, otherworldly, religious |
| Main Entry: | earthbound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthly |
| Synonyms: | earthen, earthy, secular, tellurian, telluric, terrene, terrestrial, worldly |
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