Definition of
Earthling
- (noun, person) an inhabitant of the earth
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Alternate forms of Earthling
Derivations: earth
Hypernyms: denizen, dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant
Origin of the word Earthling
- O.E. eyr?ling "plowman" (see earth); the sense of "inhabitant of the earth" is from 1590s. Earthman was originally (1860) "a demon who lives in the earth;" science fiction sense of "inhabitant of the planet Earth" first attested 1949 in writing of Robert Heinlein. more
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