Earthborn

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Earthborn \Earth"born`\, earth-born
  \earth"-born\([~e]rth"b[^o]rn`), a.
     1. Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from
        the earth; human; having the characteristics of earthly
        life; as, earth-born beings.
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              Some earthborn giant.                 --Milton.
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     2. Relating to, or occasioned by, earthly objects.
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              All earthborn cares are wrong.        --Goldsmith.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  earthborn
       adj 1: of earthly origin (as mortals are); "earthborn existence"
       2: springing from or born on the earth; "earthborn beings"
       3: connected with earthly life; of earthly origin; "earthborn
          cares and pleasures"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "earthborn":
     Adamite, Adamitic, anthropocentric, anthropological, baseborn,
     below the salt, cockney, common, commonplace, earthy, finite,
     fleshly, frail, homely, hominal, homocentric, human, humanistic,
     humble, low, lowborn, lowbred, lowly, man-centered, mean, mortal,
     nonclerical, only human, ordinary, plain, plebeian, rude,
     shabby-genteel, tellurian, third-estate, unangelic, ungenteel,
     vulgar, weak