Earthlet

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An Earthling, especially a young child.

    "Whilst reading your zarjaz journal the other day it struck me that, despite your galactic omnipotence, you have been leaving older Earthlets to demise at the hands of thrill-suckers. May I humbly suggest Judge Dredd teatowels, Tharg coffee mugs and the like to protect our Earthlet elders?"

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Earthlet alt-of

    "He took them to a funny box called a classroom. Inside they met a teacher person named Ms. Johnson. She introduced them to some little two-legged earthlets with only one head. Some were called boys and some were called girls. They had strange names like Ann and Bob, etc. I'll let Bim and Bam tell you about these earthlets."

Example

More examples

"Whilst reading your zarjaz journal the other day it struck me that, despite your galactic omnipotence, you have been leaving older Earthlets to demise at the hands of thrill-suckers. May I humbly suggest Judge Dredd teatowels, Tharg coffee mugs and the like to protect our Earthlet elders?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Earth + -let.

Etymology 2

From earth + -let.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.