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on earth is an adverb meaning "used with question words to convey surprise". It carries one recorded sense.
used with question words to convey surprise
“what on earth are you doing?”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for on earth come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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