terra firma

Questions about terra firma

What does terra firma mean?

terra firma means "the solid part of the earth's surface".

What is another word for terra firma?

Close synonyms include land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground. 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 terra firma a common word?

terra firma 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.