Definition of Terrene

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air.

Exact synonyms: Tellurian, Telluric, Terrestrial
Partainyms: Earth, Earth, Earth, Earth

2. Adjective. Belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly. "So terrene a being as himself"
Exact synonyms: Mundane
Similar to: Earthly

Definition of Terrene

1. n. A tureen.

2. a. Of or pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, terrene substance.

3. n. The earth's surface; the earth.

Definition of Terrene

1. Adjective. pertaining to the earth; earthly, terrestrial, worldly as opposed to heavenly ¹

2. Noun. (poetic) The Earth's surface; the earth; the ground. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Terrene

1. a land area [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Terrene

terrawatts
terrazzo
terrazzos
terre-tenant
terre-tenants
terre-verte
terre-vertes
terreen
terreens
terreity
terrel
terrella
terrellas
terremote
terremotes
terrene (current term)
terrenely
terrenes
terrenity
terreous
terreplein
terrepleins
terres-vertes
terrestial
terrestre
terrestrial
terrestrial dynamical time
terrestrial guidance
terrestrial planet
terrestrial planets

Literary usage of Terrene

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Elementary Treatise on Phototopographic Methods and Instruments by John Adolphus Flemer (1906)
"HAUCK'S METHOD FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF terrene POINTS PICTURED ON SEVERAL PHOTOGRAPHS. The two photographs, picturing the same areas as seen from ..."

2. An Elementary Treatise on Phototopographic Methods and Instruments by John Adolphus Flemer (1906)
"HAUCK'S METHOD FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF terrene POINTS PICTURED ON SEVERAL PHOTOGRAPHS. The two photographs, picturing the same areas as seen from ..."

3. An Elementary Treatise on Phototopographic Methods and Instruments by John Adolphus Flemer (1906)
"HAUCK'S METHOD FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF terrene POINTS PICTURED ON SEVERAL PHOTOGRAPHS. The two photographs, picturing the same areas as seen from ..."

4. The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker (1768)
"... never foar above the reach of terrene exhalations, which adhering and gathering round it, might weigh it down again to the earth from whence it rofe. ..."

5. The London Medical Gazette (1841)
"M. Orfila, to advance that terrene arsenic can act apon animal matter. As to the important question of the spots supplied by Marsh's apparatus, ..."

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