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tellurian

1

[ te-loor-ee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. of or characteristic of the earth or its inhabitants; terrestrial.


noun

  1. an inhabitant of the earth.

tellurian

2

[ te-loor-ee-uhn ]

noun

tellurian

/ ³Ùɛˈ±ôÊŠÉ™°ùɪə²Ô /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the earth
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. (esp in science fiction) an inhabitant of the earth
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tellurian1

First recorded in 1780–90; from Latin ³Ù±ð±ô±ôÅ«°ù- (stem of ³Ù±ð±ô±ôÅ«²õ ) “earth†+ -ian
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tellurian1

C19: from Latin ³Ù±ð±ô±ôÅ«²õ the earth
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This skill for elision returns, evocatively, in “Saying Goodbye to the Dead,†which begins, “I walk on the dirt roads being my fatherâ€â€”the speaker at once Christlike and tellurian in loss.

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They are not impossible: they could be translated into actual tellurian beings, which the men and women of the bad novelist never can be.

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He turned his face to her and said earnestly, "Did you ever sleep out on a mountain with the stars close above you?—'the vast tellurian galleons' voyaging through space?"

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It was really like a dead forest, or like thick-set masts of shipping in a thronged port; or the vents of tellurian fires, which send up their flames by night and their smoke by day.

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