Earthwoman

//ˈɜːθˌwʊm.ən// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A female inhabitant of Earth. usually

    "One was what had been born in me, what had been inextricably entangled in the structure of the germ cell from which I had been created; the other remembered all the long years on Earth when I, in common with every other Earthman and Earthwoman, had been flexed and shaped by the insistent pounding of the Combine; my brain had been conditioned to believe what it was desired that I should believe, and nothing beyond that."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of Earthwoman. alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    a female inhabitant of the earth wordnet

Example

More examples

"One was what had been born in me, what had been inextricably entangled in the structure of the germ cell from which I had been created; the other remembered all the long years on Earth when I, in common with every other Earthman and Earthwoman, had been flexed and shaped by the insistent pounding of the Combine; my brain had been conditioned to believe what it was desired that I should believe, and nothing beyond that."

Etymology

From Earth + -woman.

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