earthrisen.
/ˈəːθrʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈərθˌraɪz/ 1. Sunset, as resulting from the daily rotation of the earth. Now rare.
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the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [noun] > setting
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1918 W. Beebe Jungle Peace ii. 24 We watch the glorious ‘sunset’... I once persuaded a group of passengers [on board ship] to speak only of the evening's ‘earth-rise’ and in three or four days this term had become reasonable.
1937 Sci. News Let. 25 Sept. 202/2 The sun does not rise..and set! It is the earth that moves, from west to east... It would be more correct to speak of ‘earth-rise’ and ‘earth-set’ than of sunset and sunrise.
1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 July 465/1 The theories of Copernicus did not take the world by storm in a day—some, who must mean earthset and earthrise, speak even yet of sunrise and sunset.
2. The rise of earth above the horizon, as seen by an observer on (or in orbit around) another planet; an instance of this. Also figurative.
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1969 L. Ginsberg Let. 30 May in A. Ginsberg & L. Ginsberg Family Business (2001) 290 How do you like the pictures of the earthrise seen from near the moon? The earth looks innocent, blue-and-white, afloat in a black silence.
1994 Sci. Amer. July 27 (caption) Earthrise over the Mare Smythii region, located on the eastern limb of the moon, was taken 25 years ago by Apollo 11.
2002 S. Armitage Universal Home Doctor (2004) 66 After that, a new dominion of scale. The earthrise of a final, human smile.
2007 N.Y. Mag. 17 Sept. 70/1 We see the liftoffs, the orbits, the ‘Earth rises’ that still put a lump in your throat, and..the view from just above the [moon's] cratered landscape.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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