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单词 geoplanarian
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geoplanarian
geoplanarian n.
Brit. /ˌdʒiːə(ʊ)pləˈnɛːrɪən/
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U.S. /ˌdʒioʊpləˈnɛriən/
[ < geo- comb. form + classical Latin plānus flat (see plain adj.2) + -arian suffix] (a) adj. of or relating to the belief that the earth is flat; (b) n. a person who holds this belief; = flat-earther n. at flat adj., adv., and n.3 Compounds 2.
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1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 181 I read that the Geoplanarian Society—a society devoted to the proposition that the earth is flat—had held its Annual Banquet and Exercises at Huckley on Saturday.
1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 182 The Geoplanarians' Annual Banquet and Exercises.
1964 Math. Gaz. 48 148 There is much more to be said for the geoplanarians..than we are ready to admit.
1992 D. Best Rationality of Feeling v. 71 There is still a geoplanarian or flat-earth society, whose members construe differently the ‘same’ observations as those who are convinced the earth is spherical.
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