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• the planet earth
• the history of life on earth
• the earth’s ozone layer
• the earth revolves around the sun.

earth

1. the world; the planet that we live on
• the planet Earth
• the history of life on earth
• the earth’s ozone layer
• The earth revolves around the sun.
• I must be the happiest person on earth!
2. land; the hard surface of the world that is not the sea or the sky; the ground
• After a week at sea, it was good to feel the earth beneath our feet again.
• You could feel the earth shake as the truck came closer.
• She was sitting on the floor watching TV.
• I found her lying on the ground.
• The rocket crashed a few seconds after it left the ground.
• It was good to be back on dry land again.
• They fought both at sea and on land.
• You could feel the earth shake as the truck came closer.
3. the substance that plants grow in
• a clod/lump/mound of earth
• I cleaned off the earth clinging to my boots.
• Plant the seedlings in damp soil.
• The car wheels got stuck in the mud.
• A cloud of dust rose as the truck set off.
• The tiles are made of clay.
• an area of rich, fertile land
• She put some earth into the pot.
• Pack the dirt firmly around the plants.
• The car got stuck in the muddy ground.
• They drove across miles of rough, stony ground.
4. the hole where an animal, especially a fox, lives
5. a wire that connects an electric circuit with the ground and makes it safe
• See related entries: Electronics
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/electronics/earth_1
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 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 have sex
11. to hide, especially to escape from somebody who is chasing you
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

Extra Examples

• Furniture fell over as the room was shaken by an earth tremor.
• 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.
• No one knows what happens to us after we leave this earth.
• The Bible says the meek will inherit the earth.
• The astronauts were able to send the information back to earth.
• The earth orbits the sun.
• The earth revolves on its axis.
• The fields had been ploughed, and there was nothing but bare earth to be seen.
• The island was there before there was life on earth.
• The plants must have their roots in the earth.
• The sun beat down on the baked earth.
• The wreckage of the plane was scattered across the scorched earth.
• We are flying at 30 000 feet above the earth.
• a lost spirit, wandering the earth
• humans and other species that inhabit the earth
• in mines deep under the earth
• satellites orbiting the earth
• the future of life on planet Earth
• the last asteroid that hit the earth
• the moon’s orbit around the earth
• the retreating army’s scorched earth policy.
• when dinosaurs roamed the earth
• Dig the earth to a depth of two spade lengths.
• Earth from the garden was clinging to his boots.
• His boots sank into the soft earth.
• I must be the happiest person in the world/on earth!
• In the air was the smell of freshly dug earth.
• In the story the aliens have a plan to destroy planet earth.
• It was good to feel the earth beneath our feet again.
• She put a couple of handfuls of earth into the pot.
• The Earth’s ozone layer protects all life from the sun’s harmful radiation.
• The bunker is located deep below the earth.
• The earth was dry and scorched.
• The fossil record shows the history of life on earth.

Word Origin

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