Usually means: Inhabitant of Earth, human or not.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word earthling:

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  1. Earthling, earthling: Merriam-Webster
  2. earthling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. earthling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. earthling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. earthling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Earthling, earthling: Wordnik
  7. earthling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Earthling, earthling: Wiktionary
  9. earthling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. earthling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. earthling: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Earthling, earthling: Dictionary.com
  13. earthling: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Earthling (Fringe), Earthling (album), Earthling (band), Earthling (disambiguation), Earthling (film), Earthling, The Earthling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Earthling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. earthling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. earthling: Rhymezone
  18. Earthling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. earthling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. earthling: FreeDictionary.org
  21. earthling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. earthling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. earthling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. earthling: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See earthlings as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An inhabitant of Earth, as opposed to one of heaven. [from 16th c.]
noun:  (chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth, as opposed to one of another planet; specifically, a sentient member of any species native to Earth. [from 20th c.]
noun:  (archaic) A person who is materialistic or worldly; a worldling. [from 17th c.]
noun:  (obsolete except historical) One who tills the earth; a farmer, a husbandman, a ploughman.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Earthling [An inhabitant of Earth, as opposed to one of heaven. [from 16th c.]]

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