Synonyms for earthling

Grammar : Noun

Spell : urth-ling

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɜrθ lɪŋ

Définition of earthling

Origin : Old English yrþling "plowman" (see earth + -ling); 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. Earlier in this sense was earthite (1825).

noun human being

Example sentences :

When, with several of them, he returned to the village, the Earthling was gone.
Extract from : « Happy Ending » by Fredric Brown

They took the Earthling out with them, then, and tied him to a tree.
Extract from : « Happy Ending » by Fredric Brown

The others tied the Earthling up and threw him into one of the huts.
Extract from : « Happy Ending » by Fredric Brown

The Earthling looked off, unseeing, into a far corner of the room.
Extract from : « Adaptation » by Dallas McCord Reynolds

"Ggaran, you explain it to the Earthling," said His Effulgence.
Extract from : « Upstarts » by L. J. Stecher

Just pretend you are Ellen the Earthling from that comedy of yours.
Extract from : « Mother America » by Sam McClatchie

Earthling, you are beginning to try my patience, Arlok snapped.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 » by Various

She was now—as she had been once before—as impotent as an earthling.
Extract from : « Earth Alert! » by Kris Neville

His eyes bored into the Earthling, as though daring him to refuse again.
Extract from : « Skin Game » by Charles E. Fritch

The bandwidths in the Martian cameras don't necessarily match the color bandwidths on Earthling computers.
Extract from : « Color Images from Mars Rovers » by Bob Webster

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