Usage of "earthling" | TermGallery

Russian

Spanish

Inhabitants of the planet Earth; all life existing on and likely originating from Earth; currently identical to life generally to the extent known to the same.

extraterrestrial life

Related terms

population

земной организм

Portuguese

terráqueo

Catalan

terrícola

An inhabitant of the earth.

terráqueo

Usage of earthling in English

Pity the poor earthling caught in the toils of the moral law. 
 The Titan 

Yes, we have been monitoring your earthling communications, but cannot respond yet. 
 Existence 

She loved her ruminations more than any other earthling she encountered. 
 Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America 

This may require more than the skills of an earthling. 
 The Tarn of Eternity 

It was to be, in his words, his last day as a perfectly functioning earthling. 
 The Irish Times 

This earthling would, of course, fail in one or all the tasks to be imposed. 
 The Tarn of Eternity 

It's up to one earthling named Jonnie Goodboy Tyler to start a revolution and save mankind. 
 News.com.au 

She had been on Earth so long she had even begun to think like an earthling. 
 The Red Queen 

While still far superior to most of his peers he looks more earthling than superhuman this season. 
 The Guardian 

And you, earthling, shall be my emissary. 
 The Tarn of Eternity 

Both feature an earthling catapulted into an alien world and trying to make sense of its unfamiliar ways. 
 The Irish Times 

I can't really be standing on earth and dealing with this earthling shit, you know what I'm saying? 
 The Guardian 

I grant you your life, earthling. 
 The Tarn of Eternity 

I felt like an alien in a science fiction movie, one who's trying to masquerade as an earthling. 
 11/22/63 

The absolute necessity of the bedroom tax, for example, has never been explained to any earthling using ordinary words. 
 The Guardian 

Perhaps she will never again suffer a poor, unworthy earthling to walk in the shadow of her divine presence. 
 The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories 