Tellurian

4 definitions found

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

  Tellurian \Tel*lu"ri*an\, a. [L. tellus, -uris, the earth.]
     Of or pertaining to the earth. --De Quincey.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Tellurian \Tel*lu"ri*an\, n.
     1. A dweller on the earth. --De Quincey.
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     2. An instrument for showing the operation of the causes
        which produce the succession of day and night, and the
        changes of the seasons. [Written also {tellurion}.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tellurian
       adj : of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the
             sea or air [syn: {telluric}, {terrestrial}, {terrene}]
       n : an inhabitant of the earth [syn: {earthling}, {earthman}]

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

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "tellurian":
     Adamite, Adamitic, anthropocentric, anthropological, being, body,
     cat, chap, character, creature, customer, duck, earth, earthbound,
     earthling, earthly, earthy, fellow, finite, fleshly,
     fluvioterrestrial, frail, geophilous, groundling, guy, hand, head,
     hominal, homo, homocentric, human, human being, humanistic,
     individual, joker, life, living soul, man, man-centered, mortal,
     mundane, nose, one, only human, party, person, personage,
     personality, single, somebody, someone, soul, subastral, sublunar,
     telluric, terran, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, unangelic,
     weak, worldling, worldly