earthsiden.adv.adj.
/ˈəːθsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈərθˌsaɪd/ A. n.
1. Usually in form earth side. The earthly, as opposed to spiritual, side or aspect of something; the side based on or facing earth.
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the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [noun] > the present (temporal) state > earthly or temporal things
worldOE
temporal1390
earthside1854
1854 E. B. Browning Let. 18 Jan. in A. S. Orr Life & Lett. R. Browning (1891) I. xi. 287 I can't look on the earthside of death; I flinch from corpses and graves.
1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia ii. ix. 226 On this dark or earth-side of his [sc. Christ's] nature.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xiv. 132 The earth-side of the grave.
1900 Des Moines (Iowa) Daily News 6 Oct. 11/2 It isn't enough to love with the earth side of us!
1916 O. J. Lodge Raymond ii. vi. 127 He shows me a capital H, and says that is not an instructor, it is some one he knows on the earth side.
1967 Times 22 Aug. 9/7 On the earth side of this interfacial region the ionized particles are trapped in the complex zones discovered by..Professor van Allen.
2000 J. Bocknek Sci. of Sky 18 A full moon occurs when the Sun shines on all of the Earth side of the Moon.
2. Science Fiction. Without article. A group or department based on the planet earth; the planet earth.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > earth > [noun]
earthOE
ballc1300
Tellus1567
this earthly round1584
mass1587
underworld1609
footstool1652
terrestrial1745
terra firma1786
Planet Earth1858
terra1947
earthside1958
1958 ‘E. Rodman’ in Super-Sci. Fiction June 67/2 With unquivering fingers he completed the connection and waited for Earthside to respond with the acknowledgement.
1966 R. S. Heinlein Moon is Harsh Mistress (1967) 147 I am sorry to say that we are temporarily interfering with your right to communicate with Earthside.
1991 K. Laumer Judson's Eden 26 I've got a report from Earthside.
B. adv.
Chiefly Science Fiction. On or towards the planet earth.
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1947 ‘H. Hastings’ in Thrilling Wonder Stories June 45/1 They'll do the refining here and transmit the refined ores back Earthside.
1949 R. A. Heinlein Red Planet (1963) iv. 53 Many's the time he's told me stories about the school he went to back Earthside.
1979 J. P. Hogan Two Faces of Tomorrow 9 Paggett is only there until he retires Earthside and until then he'll just go on rubber-stamping.
1993 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 17 Mar. c9 Power satellites could convert solar energy into microwave energy that, beamed earthside to huge receivers in deserted areas, would become electrical energy.
C. adj.
Chiefly Science Fiction. Of, relating to, or from the planet earth; (also) relating to earthly as opposed to spiritual life.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > earth > [adjective]
earthya1398
subcelestial1561
terrestrial1597
sublunary1609
beneatha1616
terrene1635
subsidereal1636
under-celestial1640
subsolar1648
subsolary1661
planetary1831
earthside1951
Terran1953
the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective] > temporal or not spiritual
temporalc1380
secular1597
sublunary1609
temporarya1616
sublunarian1852
earthside1951
1951 A. E. van Vogt in Marvel Sci. Fiction Aug. 73/1 Barron, the only Earthside executive present, stood up and offered me his hand.
1956 Galaxy Sci. Fiction 43 11/2 Some Earthside official of the Interstellar Prison Service.
1988 F. Pohl & J. Williamson Land's End (1989) 196 We are the only remaining earthside contingent of General Marcus McKen's space forces.
2001 K. Vaux in G. McKim Westm. Handbk. Reformed Theol. 101/1 Death is the announcement that our work is done; we have completed our earth-side ministry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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