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earth surface person

earth surface person is the alternative letter-case form of Earth Surface Person.

Noun (1) capitalized: Earth Surface Person

Earth Surface Person (plural Earth Surface People)

  1. (Native American) A human being, specifically in cultures like the Navajo, residing on the physical Earth, as opposed to spiritual beings or deities, considered to reside in higher realms.
    • Their tales qualify this as Earth People or Earth Surface People, for, in the long, poetic myth which is their bible, they climbed up to the earth's flat disk from her dark, underground womb.1956, Ruth Murray Underhill, The Navajos, page 4
    • Toad denounces angrily that an earth surface person should be going about here and shoots mudballs at various parts of her body (soles, hip joint, small of back, meeting of shoulder blades, hollow of head); she is lamed and felled by this witchery.1957, Katherine Spencer, Mythology and Values, An Analysis of Navaho Chantway Myths, page 153

Noun (2) capitalized: Earth surface person

Earth surface person

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Earth Surface Person.

Forms of earth surface person

pluralEarth Surface People
alternative formEarth surface person
alternative formearth surface person

Questions about earth surface person

What does earth surface person mean?
Earth surface person means a human being, specifically in cultures like the Navajo, residing on the physical Earth, as opposed to spiritual beings or deities, considered to reside in higher realms.
What is earth surface person the alternative letter-case form of?
Earth surface person is the alternative letter-case form of Earth Surface Person.
What part of speech is earth surface person?
Earth surface person is a noun.
What is the plural of earth surface person?
The plural of earth surface person is Earth Surface People.

Words near earth surface person in the dictionary

  1. earth snake
  2. earth snakes
  3. earth station
  4. earth stations
  5. Earth Surface People
  6. earth surface person
  7. Earth terminal
  8. Earth terminals
  9. earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust
  10. Earth to someone
  11. earth tone

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