face of the earth

Questions about face of the earth

What does face of the earth mean?

face of the earth means "the state or fact of existing".

What is another word for face of the earth?

Close synonyms include being, beingness, existence. 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 face of the earth a common word?

face of the earth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.