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▸ noun: (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
▸ noun: The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
▸ noun: (British) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
▸ noun: The lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a fox.
▸ noun: A region of the planet; a land or country.
▸ noun: Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
▸ noun: The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
▸ noun: (metonymically) The people on the globe.
▸ noun: Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.
▸ noun: (archaic) The human body.
▸ noun: (alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
▸ noun: (chemistry, obsolete) Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.
▸ verb: (UK, transitive) To connect electrically to the earth.
▸ verb: (transitive) To bury.
▸ verb: (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To burrow.
▸ noun: The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live.
▸ noun: The personification of the Earth or earth, (chiefly) as a fertile woman or (religion) goddess.
▸ noun: Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun. [The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live.]
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terra firma,
ground,
land,
dry land,
globe,
world,
earthly concern,
solid ground,
worldly concern,
planet,
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