TELLURIAN

tellurian, telluric, terrestrial, terrene

(adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air

tellurian, earthling, earthman, worldling

(noun) an inhabitant of the earth

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

tellurian (not comparable)

(formal or literary) Of or relating to the earth; (specifically, chiefly, science fiction) inhabiting planet Earth as opposed to other planets. [from mid 19th c.]

Synonyms: earthly, telluric, terrene, terrestrial

(mineralogy) Of a mineral: containing tellurium.

Noun

tellurian (plural tellurians)

(astronomy, historical) Alternative spelling of tellurion (“instrument used to show how the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun cause day and night and the seasons”)

(chiefly, science fiction) Alternative letter-case form of Tellurian (“inhabitant of the planet Earth”)

Anagrams

• unliteral

Etymology

Noun

Tellurian (plural Tellurians)

An inhabitant of the Earth.

Synonyms: Earthling, Terran, Thesaurus:Earthling

Antonyms: alien, extraterrestrial, Thesaurus:extraterrestrial

Hypernyms

• Solarian

Hyponyms

• Earthgirl

• Earthman

• Earthwoman

Anagrams

• unliteral

Source: Wiktionary

Tel*lu"ri*an, a. Etym: [L. tellus, -uris, the earth.]

Definition: Of or pertaining to the earth. De Quincey.

Tel*lu"ri*an, n.

1. A dweller on the earth. De Quincey.

2. An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons. [Written also tellurion.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition