Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Around the earth; being or dwelling around the earth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being or dwelling around the earth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Being or dwelling around the
Earth .
Etymologies
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circum- + Latin terra earth.
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Examples
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It will be obvious to the reader that the excursion just described, was equivalent to a trip around the world; wherefore I am entitled to the assertion that it even surpassed Nellie Bly's remarkable feat who needed seventy-two days, six hours, and eleven minutes for accomplishing her circumterraneous voyage.
By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler
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