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Webster 1913 Edition

Earthling

Earth′ling

,

Noun.

[

Earth

+

-ling

.]

An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.

Earthlings

oft her deemed a deity.

Drummond.

Webster 1828 Edition

Earthling

EARTH'LING

,

Noun.

An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal; a frail creature.

Definition 2024

Earthling

Earthling

See also: earthling

English

Alternative forms

earthling

Noun

Earthling ‎(plural Earthlings)

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Earth.

Synonyms

Earthican (nonstandard, humorous, science fiction), Terran, Tellurian, see also Wikisaurus:Earthling

Antonyms

alien, extraterrestrial, see also Wikisaurus:extraterrestrial

Hypernyms

Solarian

Hyponyms

Earthgirl, Earthman, Earthwoman

Translations

inhabitant of the planet Earth

Arabic: أَرْضِيّ ‎(ʾarḍiyy)
Basque: lurtar
Bulgarian: човек (bg) m ‎(čovek), жител на Земята ‎(žitel na Zemjata)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 地球人 ‎(dìqiúrén)
Czech: Pozemšťan m
Dutch: Aardbewoner m
Esperanto: terano
Finnish: maan asukas
French: terrien (fr) m, terrienne (fr) f
German: Erdling (de) m, Terraner m
Greek: γήινος (el) m ‎(gíinos)
Hungarian: földlakó
Icelandic: jarðarbúi m

Italian: terrestre (it) m
Japanese: 地球人 ‎(ちきゅうじん, chikyūjin)
Korean: 지구인 (ko) ‎(jigu-in) (地球人 (ko))
Lithuanian:
Polish: Ziemianin (pl) m
Portuguese: terráqueo (pt) m, terrestre (pt) m, f
Romanian: pământean (ro) m, pământeană f
Russian: земля́нин (ru) m ‎(zemljánin)
Serbo-Croatian: Земљанин m ‎(Zemljanin), Земљанка f ‎(Zemljanka)
Spanish: terrícola (es) m, f, terrestre (es) m, f, terráqueo (es) m
Swedish: jordbo (sv) c
Vietnamese: người Trái đất
Welsh: daearolyn m

See also

hatchling

Anagrams

earthling

earthling

See also: Earthling

English

Noun

earthling ‎(plural earthlings)

Alternative letter-case form of Earthling