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say it: urth
earth is a noun and verb meaning "the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on". It is pronounced /ˈɝθ/ — urth. It carries 9 recorded senses.
the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
“the Earth moves around the sun”
“he sailed around the world”
the solid part of the earth's surface
“the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land”
“the earth shook for several minutes”
“he dropped the logs on the ground”
the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
“they consider the church to be independent of the world”
a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
electricity
hide in the earth like a hunted animal
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for earth come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.