earthman

Questions about earthman

What does earthman mean?

earthman means "an inhabitant of the earth".

How many syllables are in earthman?

earthman has 3 syllables and divides as e-arth-man under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for earthman?

Close synonyms include tellurian, earthling, worldling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is earthman a common word?

earthman is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.