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单词 terranean
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terraneanadj.n.

/tɛˈreɪniːən/
Etymology: formed as terraneous adj. + -an suffix.
A. adj.
Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the earth.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > [adjective]
earthlyOE
netherOE
lowc1225
terrene13..
terrestre1340
temporalc1380
earthyc1429
terrestrialc1460
inferial?a1475
mundanec1475
mundial1499
earthish?1533
terrenala1555
terreal1598
terrestrene1599
sublunary1609
sublunar1610
mundal1614
temporarya1616
earth-born1626
terranean1653
circumterraneous1678
subcelestial1706
terraneousa1711
terrean1714
terrigenal1744
subastral1752
geotic1755
tellurian1786
worldly1812
telluric1813
transglobal1953
1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 107 It is a terranean and earthy Angle.
18.. Electr. Rev. (U.S.) XVIII. i. 9 The great strain on the trolley wire..would be a necessary incident of terranean supply.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 120 Of an early muddy terranean origin.
B. n.
Also terranian. An inhabitant of the planet Earth. Science Fiction. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > of earth
terranean1913
Terran1953
1913 ‘Sepharial’ Kabala of Numbers II. xi. 175 Red is an irritant to all but Martians, and to them green probably means the same thing as does red to us Terranians.
1965 Punch 27 Jan. 141/3 When one of the anemone-harnessers..tells a couple of captive ‘terraneans’, i.e., grown-ups, ‘You must be destroyed!’ I could sense a tremble of joy in children everywhere.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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