Search Result for "tellurian":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. an inhabitant of the earth;
[syn: tellurian, earthling, earthman, worldling]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air;
[syn: tellurian, telluric, terrestrial, terrene]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tellurian \Tel*lu"ri*an\, a. [L. tellus, -uris, the earth.] Of or pertaining to the earth. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tellurian \Tel*lu"ri*an\, n. 1. A dweller on the earth. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 2. An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons. [Written also tellurion.] [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "tellurian": Adamite, Adamitic, anthropocentric, anthropological, being, body, cat, chap, character, creature, customer, duck, earth, earthbound, earthling, earthly, earthy, fellow, finite, fleshly, fluvioterrestrial, frail, geophilous, groundling, guy, hand, head, hominal, homo, homocentric, human, human being, humanistic, individual, joker, life, living soul, man, man-centered, mortal, mundane, nose, one, only human, party, person, personage, personality, single, somebody, someone, soul, subastral, sublunar, telluric, terran, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, unangelic, weak, worldling, worldly
