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Mother Earth

Mother Earth proper noun: the personification of the Earth, (chiefly) conceived as a fertile, nurturing, and loving mother; a personification invoked in many contexts, religious and nonreligious, including figurative use in scientific contexts.

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Proper noun

Mother Earth

  1. The personification of the Earth, (chiefly) conceived as a fertile, nurturing, and loving mother; a personification invoked in many contexts, religious and nonreligious, including figurative use in scientific contexts.
    • Near-synonym: Mother Nature
    • We had not gone thirty paces from the shaft when far down in the depths my iron dart shot into the nerve ganglion of old Mother Earth and the great moment had arrived.1928 February 25 – March 3, Arthur Conan Doyle, “When the World Screamed”, in The Professor Challenger Stories […], London: John Murray, […], published [1952], →OCLC, page 574
  2. The goddess of the earth in various cultures; a statue or figurine of this goddess.
    • [P]igs and sows by their exceeding fruitfulness would in their hour of sacrifice remind old mother Earth of what was expected from her!1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 73
    • Rather than sacrifice to Mother Earth, Anglo-Saxons were encouraged to direct their prayers to the Virgin Mary[.]1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 143

Mother Earth meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Kannada

Mother Earth in Hindi

personification of Earth
पृथ्वी pŕthvī, धरती माता dhartī mātā, धरित्री dharitrī

Mother Earth in Bengali

Mother Earth
পৃথ্বী pritthi

Mother Earth in Telugu

personification of Earth
భూమాత bhūmāta

Mother Earth in Kannada

ನೆಲದಾಯ್, ನೆಲತಾಯ್, ನೆಲತಾಯಿ, ನೆಲದಾಯಿ
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Mother Earth in Sanskrit
पृथ्वी pṛthvī, धरित्री dharitrī
Mother Earth in Indonesian
Pertiwi

Synonyms of Mother Earth

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Questions about Mother Earth

What does Mother Earth mean?
Mother Earth means the personification of the Earth, (chiefly) conceived as a fertile, nurturing, and loving mother; a personification invoked in many contexts, religious and nonreligious, including figurative use in scientific contexts.
What is Mother Earth in Hindi?
Mother Earth in Hindi is पृथ्वी (pŕthvī), धरती माता (dhartī mātā), धरित्री (dharitrī). See Mother Earth meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Mother Earth?
Mother Earth is a proper noun.

Words near Mother Earth in the dictionary

  1. mother city
  2. mother countries
  3. mother country
  4. mother dough
  5. mother doughs
  6. Mother Earth
  7. mother figure
  8. mother figures
  9. mother fucker
  10. mother fuckers
  11. mother goddess

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mother Earth (page history and authors); পৃথ্বী (Bengali) (page history and authors); mother earth (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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