terrene

Other forms of terrene

comparative

terrener·

superlative

terrenest·

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.

Questions about terrene

What does terrene mean?

terrene means "of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in terrene?

terrene has 2 syllables and divides as ter-rene 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 terrene?

Close synonyms include tellurian, telluric, terrestrial, mundane. 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 terrene a common word?

terrene 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.