We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of terra in English
Roman deity.
Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "tellus"
Examples for "tellus"
1
We have stepped out of the old world on to "Brunel's" vast deck, and across the waters ingens patet tellus.
2
Conceptions such as sowing (-saeturnus-) and field-labour (-ops-) ground (-tellus-) and boundary-stone (-terminus-), were among the oldest and most sacred of Roman divinities.
3
At the temple of Tellus I have even got your statue placed.
4
As she evolved, she has been associated with Tellus Mater and Demeter.
5
Gennifer Tellus turned and ran to the sidelines to join her team.
1
As she evolved, she has been associated with Tellus Mater and Demeter.
2
His female counterpart is Tellus Mater.
1
You shall offer it to the Great Mystery and to mother earth.
2
Blue-Star Woman looked up from the lap of mother earth without rising.
3
Perhaps the quiet mother earth watches us, and whispers to our deaf ears:
4
He must be born out of mother earth to find the everlasting life.
5
He needs them as Hercules needed the touch of mother earth.
Usage of terra in English
1
The walls of the main living area were painted in terra-cotta murals.
2
Notwithstanding these the canyons remain almost terra incognita for each new navigator.
3
At 10 o'clock the soldiers were assembled on terra firma once more.
4
Other New England potteries are eminent for terra cotta and granite wares.
5
Kind of weird to celebrate with fire, while our terra firma burns.
6
At this time glazed terra cotta came to be used by sculptors.
7
Stone lions defy, and terra cotta stags run away from, porcelain dogs.
8
She turned, and there it was, in one of the terra-cotta pots.
9
How are school trustees chosen, and what is their terra of office?
10
Australia was founded on the lie that this country was terra nullius.
11
The Corinthian, vessels of terra cotta were the finest in Greece.
12
However he argues that it is just as stunning back on terra firma.
13
The Soviet Union remained close to terra incognita for American spies.
14
The weather is now good, and I have the army on terra firma.
15
Brick and terra cotta seem to have a natural affinity for one another.
16
Tells about the disastrous use of terra cotta on NYC facades.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Translations for terra
Terra through the time
Terra across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common