Earth I Planet Revolves Extra Examples Ground Noun

• the planet earth
• the earth revolves around the sun.
• a satellite orbiting the earth
• the earth's surface/crust

earth

1. the world; the planet that we live on
• the planet Earth
• The earth revolves around the sun.
• a satellite orbiting the earth
• the earth's surface/crust
• the history of life on earth
• I must be the happiest person on earth!

Extra Examples

• No one knows what happens to us after we leave this earth.
• The Bible says the meek will inherit the earth.
• The earth revolves on its axis.
• a lost spirit, wandering the earth
• humans and other species that inhabit the earth
• the last asteroid that hit the earth
• the moon's orbit around the earth
• She believed that demons walked the earth.
• when dinosaurs roamed the earth
• The astronauts were able to send the information back to earth.
2. land; the hard surface of the world that is not the sea or the sky; the ground
• SEE ALSO scorched earth policy
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/scorched-earth-policy
• After a week at sea, it was good to feel the earth beneath our feet again.
• fifty feet above the earth
• in mines deep under the earth
• You could feel the earth shake as the truck came closer.

Extra Examples

• Furniture fell over as the room was shaken by an earth tremor.
• The wreckage of the plane was scattered across the parched earth.
• The bunker is located deep below the earth.
3. the substance that plants grow in
• SEE ALSO fuller’s earth
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/fuller-s-earth
• a clod/mound of earth
• I cleaned off the earth clinging to my boots.

Extra Examples

• I filled the pot with a handful of loose earth.
• I scrambled to the top of the steep earth bank.
• My boots were caked in big clods of wet earth.
• The fields had been ploughed, and there was nothing but bare earth to be seen.
• The plants must have their roots in the earth.
• The sun beat down on the baked earth.
• Dig the earth to a depth of two spade lengths.
• His boots sank into the soft earth.
• In the air was the smell of freshly dug earth.
4. the hole under the ground where an animal, especially a fox, lives
5. a wire that connects an electric circuit with the ground and makes it safe
6. to be, feel, look, taste, etc. very bad
7. to charge, etc. a lot of money
• I'd love that dress, but it costs the earth.
• If you want a house in London, you’ll have to pay the earth for it.
8. to return, or to make somebody return, to a normal way of thinking or behaving after a time when you/they have been very excited, not very practical, etc.
• SEE ALSO down to earth
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/down-to-earth
9. to disappear completely
• Keep looking—they can't just have vanished off the face of the earth.
10. to hide, especially to escape from somebody
11. to do everything possible, even if it is difficult, in order to get or achieve something
• I'd go to the ends of the earth to see her again.
12. used to emphasize the question you are asking when you are surprised or angry or cannot think of an obvious answer
• What on earth are you doing?
• How on earth can she afford that?
13. to do everything you possibly can in order to achieve something
14. used after negative nouns or pronouns to emphasize what you are saying
• Nothing on earth would persuade me to go with him.
15. to make promises that will be impossible to keep
• Politicians promise the earth before an election, but things are different afterwards.
16. to find somebody/something after looking hard for a long time
17. a very good and honest person that you can always depend on
18. to destroy or remove somebody/something completely

Word Origin

• Old English eorthe, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch aarde and German Erde.