earthling

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I am a true earthling, and it breaks my heart to see that we are like cancer on the Earth.

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  1. noun One, especially a human, that inhabits the planet Earth.
  2. noun A person devoted to the world; a worldling.

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  • "Don't move, earthling," said the warty, pop-eyed alien who had suddenly appeared. —  F ;SF - vol 093 issue 03 - September 1997
  • All were from hunting races, and experiment had proven that they could eat the native wildlife as well as the earthling species introduced by the original settlers. —  A Phule and his Money
  • One guy, Secret Service agent Michael Ford, is apparently the only earthling who can save the planet. —  Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories
  • It's a neat service that will help you be a more responsible earthling. —  Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0
  • The earthling soon discovers his mentor is actually the central figure in a secret conspiracy that threatens the philosophies, traditions and hierarchy of the entire Green Lantern Corps. —  The IESB
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  1. Not found in Middle English (cf. Anglo-Saxon eorthling, yrthling, a farmer, a tiller of the earth) (= German erdling); from earth + -ling.
 

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