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terrestrial English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word terrestrial once they have reached the level C2 – Proficient. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning terrestrial meaning

What does terrestrial mean?

terrestrial

— adjective (= planetary) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants planetary rumblings and eructations — L.C.Eiseley the planetary tilt this terrestrial ball

— adjective (= tellurian) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air

— adjective operating or living or growing on land

— adjective (= mundane) concerned with the world or worldly matters mundane affairs he developed an immense terrestrial practicality

— adjective (= sublunary) of this earth transcendental motives for sublunary actions fleeting sublunary pleasures the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball

Synonyms terrestrial synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as terrestrial?

terrestrial English » English

earthly

mundane

worldly

telluric

sublunar

planetary

terrene

tellurian

sublunary

land

earthen

temporal

overland

earthy

earth

wordly

unconsecrated

terricolous

secular

relating to the earth

physical

land-living

human

earthling

earth dweller

being in the earth

Topics terrestrial topics

What do people use terrestrial to talk about?

Universe, creation

World

• What words describe something that belongs to this world?
  earthly terrestrial

Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

Island, shore

• What words refer to the land in contrast to the sea?
  land (and sea) dry land mainland continent inland interior terrestrial

Examples terrestrial examples

How do I use terrestrial in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Pigeons can use the terrestrial magnetic field to find their way home.

Some scientists believe that our first contact with extra-terrestrial life will occur in the next decade or so.

Movie subtitles

The mission, called Kepler, may not help us find extra terrestrial life but it could help us find its home.

You have carried your work as far as terrestrial science permits.

During the following geological period, the Cretaceous, a creature somewhere between the marine reptiles and the evolving terrestrial animals was born.

The terrestrial paradise is my paradise.

Blind and staggering, they contemplate the terrestrial paradise.

Terrestrial paradise.

These latter powers will likely be eliminated before too long but mr. Dingle has an appeal to extra-terrestrial note-takers as well as to frustrated and insolvent bet-losers.

Aren't you interested in extra-terrestrial objects?

But, captain, two degrees means you'll be overlooking more than a dozen terrestrial miles on each search loop.

Captain, 2 degrees means they'll be overlooking more than a dozen terrestrial miles on each search loop.

This was its terrestrial stage.

It seems to be a rather interesting extra-terrestrial life form.

A beer mug full of honey can create a lethal zone for all forms of terrestrial life within an area of 15 acres.

You have all served in humble capacities in my terrestrial empire.

You've carried your work as far as terrestrial science permits.

The Mu people far surpass the people who live on earth. With terrestrial heat we made a sun.

It's the power room using terrestrial heat for Mu energy.

Abnormal ideological reaction of Traveller 14 in front of technological systems terrestrial organisation of leisure.

Analysis of the atmosphere: terrestrial, with a slight excess of oxygen.

For 50,000 of your terrestrial years, I have been pursuing Lokai through the galaxy.

I did not mean material treasures, but spiritual ones. The treasures of your ultra-terrestrial knowledge.

You see, your balloon spent two weeks out of the terrestrial world.

We live in space, but our breeding colonies are terrestrial.

The treasures of your ultra-terrestrial knowledge.

At most, terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

This is the case on the moon and Mercury and Mars our neighboring terrestrial planets.

If we move out past the terrestrial planets beyond Mars we find ourselves in a different regime of the solar system in the realm of Jupiter and the other giant, or Jovian planets.

If we view the solar system edge on and move the sun off-screen to the left we see that the small terrestrial planets the ones about as massive as Earth, tend to be close to the sun.

These four elements, they thought, make up terrestrial matter.

Wouldn't a good beginning be better communication with terrestrial intelligence with other human beings of different cultures and languages with the great apes, with the dolphins but particularly with the whales?

News and current affairs

Likewise, more nitrogen fertilizer is applied in agriculture than is fixed naturally in all terrestrial ecosystems, and nitric-oxide production from the burning of fossil fuels and biomass also surpasses natural emissions.

Finally, there is a similar risk that Asia's terrestrial and maritime territorial disagreements (starting with the disputes between China and Japan) could escalate into outright military conflict.

Today, it is often remarked that Denmark is providing every third terrestrial wind turbine in the world, creating billions in income and jobs.

Given this history, and the storm of calls for reform in the Arab world, it is a tragic irony that America and the West have paid so little attention to the terrestrial Arab monopoly television channels.

In other words, the cosmic sprawl can help us disentangle the complex terrestrial systems and histories of which we are a part.