Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One, especially a human, that inhabits the planet Earth.
- n. A person devoted to the world; a worldling.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An inhabitant of the earth; a creature of this world; a mortal.
- n. One strongly attached to worldly things; a worldling.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative capitalization of Earthling
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an inhabitant of the earth
Examples
“God plants a garden in a place called Eden (Genesis 2: 8) and puts the human "earthling" there.”
“Between devastating earthquakes rattling people's faith in god, Glenn Beck's maniacal fundamentalism rattling people's faith in democracy, and Kevin Smith's dual inability to direct a film or fit in an airplane seat rattling people's faith in cinema, this is a pretty rough time to be an earthling.”
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“If I was a "gleiser" instead of an earthling I'd be almost 700 by now.”
“Based on that set of data—which is the equivalent of a single case series—the alien would assume that all earthling children born in New York were boys and that they all were actors with a penchant for appearing in the tabloids.”
“The image, taken in 1966 by NASA's robotic probe Lunar Orbiter 1, presented a stunning juxtaposition of planet and moon that no earthling had ever seen before.”
“In the film, an authoritarian matriarchal Martian society is desperate to find earthling moms with good parenting skills that can be programmed into the army of nannybots that raises the Martians' young.”
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“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.”
“I find the earthling sense of humor to be rather flat.”
“Even now, the Martian soldier saw a flash as sunlight reflected off the helmet or visor of the trapped earthling.”
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“Every earthling on the street was crowded against the doors, shrieking or shouting and shoving, smashing themselves against the bottleneck, desperate to get inside, as if the crumbling marble of a natural history museum could save us.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘earthling’.
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Band or Brand?
Band names that are also common words or phrases.
genesis, who, beatles, journey, germs, sublime, doors, cars, nirvana, bangles, tool, pixies and 192 more...
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Earth Words Are Easy
earth, earthquake, earthly, earthquakes, earthy, earthen, earths, earthenware, earth-shattering, earthworks, earthworms, earthbound and 43 more...
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(LING)uistics
Words ending in 'ling'
youngling, fledgling, quisling, ridgeling, stripling, kitling, scatterling, earthling, foundling, hatchling, sapling, seedling and 7 more...
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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How do you like Kipling?
Words which fit the joke format: "How do you like X-in(g)? I don't know, I've never X-ed".
kipling, duckling, fingerling, groundling, chickling, chitterling, changeling, gosling, yearling, hireling, inkling, quisling and 98 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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autumn likes these words
Me, I like them. :]
ululate, abscond, senescent, cosmonaut, cinematographer, clink, earthling, bones, automaton, cyanide, replicator, serenity and 10 more...
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words... of the FUTURE
robot, automaton, dirigible, nebula, pangalactic, starscape, terran, photon, graviton, superstring, beep, dome and 54 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for earthling.
sionnach Ooh, goody! Scurries off to add it to "How do you like Kipling?" list ... Sep 15, 2011
rolig Note to GHibbs: This is not the present participle of "earthle". Sep 15, 2011