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Earth can be a proper noun, a verb or a noun.
earth used as a proper noun:
- Our planet, third out from the Sun; see main entry Earth.
"The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole."
A proper noun is a refers to a single, specific person/thing/entity and is used to refer to that person/entity/thing. Examples are London, Jupiter, Sarah, or Microsoft. Proper nouns are distinguished from common nouns, which are words that refer to a class/category of entities (like 'chair', 'grape', and 'computer'). Learn more →
earth used as a verb:
- To connect electrically to the earth.
"That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed." - To bury.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
earth used as a noun:
- Soil.
"This is good earth for growing potatoes." - Any general rock-based material.
"She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth." - The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
"Birds are of the sky, not of the earth." - A connection electrically to the earth (US ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
- A fox's home or lair.
- The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
- One of the four basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
- One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
- One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Five Elements).
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is earth?
- Proper noun usage: The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.
- Verb usage: That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.
- Noun usage: This is good earth for growing potatoes.
- Noun usage: She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.
- Noun usage: Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of earth are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of earth, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).