Definition of On earth

1. Adverb. Used with question words to convey surprise. "What on earth are you doing?"

Definition of On earth

1. Adverb. Expletive used for emphasis after an interrogative word. ¹

2. Adverb. (alternative spelling of on earth) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of On Earth

on call
on camera
on cloud nine
on condition
on course
on deck
on deck circle
on deck circles
on demand
on dit
on dits
on drive
on drugs
on duty
on duty(p)
on earth
on edge
on end
on faith
on file
on film
on fire
on fire(p)
on firecall
on first name terms
on foot
on good terms with
on guard
on hand
on hand(p)

Literary usage of On earth

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

1. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"At the end of the gth Book the pattern which is in heaven takes the place of the city of philosophers on earth. The vision which has received form and ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The souls of men, which were all created together from the beginning and which at birth had but gotten, though the Greek and Roman ones were hab- on earth ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"By irrigation they were made to fertilize all their adjacent lands, and thus placed these among the richest countries on earth. In addition to water these ..."

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