- earth
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)II(Roget's IV) n.1. [The world]Syn. globe, sphere, planet, universe, terra (Latin), mundane world, creation, terrestrial sphere, orb, monde (French), cosmos, sublunary world, biosphere, Gaea, mother earth, Spaceship Earth.2. [The earthly crust]Syn. dirt, soil, clean dirt, loam, humus, clay, gravel, sand, ground, terra firma, land, dry land, terrain, mud, muck, topsoil, peat moss, fill, compost, decomposed granite, turf, mold, alluvium, marl, terrane, surface, subsoil, shore, coast, littoral, deposit, glebe.• come back or [m1]• down to earth,• down to earth,• on earth,Syn. of all things, of everything, in the world; see whatever .Syn.- earth is applied to the globe or planet we live on, but in religious use is opposed to heaven or hell; universe refers to the whole system of planets, stars, space, etc. and to everything that exists in it; world is equivalent to earth , esp. as relates to human activities, but is sometimes a generalized synonym for universeIII(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.1. ground soil, land, dirt, clay, loam, humus, turf, mud, terra firma.2. planet world, globe, sphere, biosphere, Gaea, terrene, orb, terra, terra firma, *spaceship Earth, vale. ''One voice in the cosmic fugue.''—Carl Sagan. ''The frozen echo of the silent voice of God.''—S.M. Hageman. ''Footstool of our God'' Isaac Watts. ''A spot, a grain, an atom.''—John Milton.WORD FIND• center of, pertaining to: geocentric• green earth color: terre verte• inhabitant: earthling, tellurian• outermost shell: crust, lithosphere• personification of: Gaea• pertaining to: terrene• shape: oblate spheroid• study of its shape, size: geodesy• study of its structure: tectonics, geology• subsurface: asthenosphere, mantle, coreIV(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The celestial body where humans live. Often uppercase: world. See PLACE. 2. The human race: flesh, Homo sapiens, humanity, humankind, man, mankind, universe, world. See CULTURE.
English dictionary for students. 2013.
