Earthsman

//ˈəːθsmən// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone from the planet Earth; an Earthman, an Earthling. archaic

    "For years he knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman."

Example

More examples

"For years he knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman."

Etymology

From Earth + -s- + man.

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