Earth Definition
(UK) To connect electrically to the earth.
To bury.
- Among all the possibilities:
Why on earth did you put on that outfit?
- to stop being impractical; return to reality
- practical; realistic
- sincere; without affectation
- to go into hiding
- of all things
what on earth do you mean?
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Earth
- on earth
- come back to earth
- down to earth
- go to earth
- on earth
- run to earth
Origin of Earth
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From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe (“earth, ground, soil, dry land”), from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“earth, ground, soil”) (compare West Frisian ierde, Low German Er(de)/Ir(de), Dutch aarde, German Erde, Danish jord), related to *erwōn 'earth' (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse jǫrfi 'gravel'), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (compare Ancient Greek *ἔρα (*era) in ἔραζε (eraze, “on the ground”), perhaps Tocharian B yare 'gravel'; probably unrelated though of unknown etymology: Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”)). The phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʾarṣ́- and its reflexes (Arabic أَرْضٌ (ʾarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ)) are probably not related.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English erthe from Old English eorthe er-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Old English eorþe.
From Wiktionary
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