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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live. · The personification of the Earth or earth, (chiefly) as a fertile woman or (religion) goddess.
From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-Germanic *erþō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (“earth”). More at earth.
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