earthling

Word family  noun earth earthling earthiness adjective earthy earthly ≠ unearthly earthen verb unearth adverb earthward(s)

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++earth·ling /ˈɜːθlɪŋ $ ˈɜːrθ-/ noun [countable]  NAME OF A PERSONa human – used in science fiction stories 地球人〔用于科幻小说中〕5The earthlings were taken up into the spaceship.这些地球人被带上了宇宙飞船。

Examples from the Corpus

earthling• But earthlings attempting to borrow found a different reality.• Maybe he was in the body but he just liked getting kicked by earthlings.• Before long, they start surprising the stressed-out earthlings, first as small steel raptors, then as humanoids.

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Corpus in a fiction – stories science used human

earthling
earth‧ling /ˈɜːθlɪŋ $ ˈɜːrθ-/ noun [countable]a human – used in science fiction stories

earth·lingBrE /ˈɜːθlɪŋ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈɜːrθlɪŋ/ 🔊 noun(in science fiction stories) a word used by creatures from other planets to refer to a person living on the earth （科幻小说中外星人用语）地球人