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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
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 ..."