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earthborn

Pronunciation:  'urth`born

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  connected with earthly life; of earthly origin; "earthborn cares and pleasures"
  2. [adj]  springing from or born on the earth; "earthborn beings"
  3. [adj]  of earthly origin (as mortals are); "earthborn existence"
 
 Synonyms: earthly, human, mortal
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Earth"born`\, a.
1. Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from
   the earth; human.

         Some earthborn giant.                 --Milton.

2. Relating to, or occasioned by, earthly objects.

         All earthborn cares are wrong.        --Goldsmith.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: 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
 

 

 



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