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Earthling   /ˈərθlɪŋ/   Listen
Earthling

noun
1.
An inhabitant of the earth.  Synonyms: earthman, tellurian, worldling.






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"Earthling" Quotes from Famous Books



... of him had seemed to stop when he got inside the cab of the truck. Could it be that the metal shield of the cab could protect an Earthling from the strange mental powers of the creature from another planet which was inhabiting the ...
— The Last Place on Earth • James Judson Harmon

... Zehru's ringing voice. "I will explain some of the things that puzzle you. There is no reason why I should trouble myself to do so, yet it may while away the tedium of the short wait yet remaining before my apparatus becomes charged to the required point. Listen carefully, Earthling, for at best you will find many of my thoughts beyond the feeble limits of the word forms with which you ...
— Zehru of Xollar • Hal K. Wells

... genuflect when you enter the Viceroy's presence," said the standing one at last. "But then I'm told you're an Earthling. I suppose we can expect you to be ignorant of those niceties customary among ...
— Upstarts • L. J. Stecher

... changes of weather and they have less vitality. Yes,' and he drew nearer, 'it is these unhappy misbirths in this spirit land who retain the sin of earth and cannot survive and get the Kinkotantitomi or irreverently, as the earthling would say, the grand bounce. They are fired off ...
— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap



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