Definition of "earthling" [earth•ling]

• One, especially a human, that inhabits the planet Earth. (noun)
• A person devoted to the world; a worldling. (noun)

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• "God plants a garden in a place called Eden (Genesis 2: 8) and puts the human "earthling" there."
• "Between devastating earthquakes rattling people's faith in god, Glenn Beck's maniacal fundamentalism rattling people's faith in democracy, and Kevin Smith's dual inability to direct a film or fit in an airplane seat rattling people's faith in cinema, this is a pretty rough time to be an earthling."
• "If I was a "gleiser" instead of an earthling I'd be almost 700 by now."