Phrase guide

earth science

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth, such as geology and meteorology.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the science that studies the planet Earth and its structures.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: natural science

Narrower terms: paleontology, palaeontology, fossilology, geology, meteorology, oceanography, oceanology, limnology, geography, geographics

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

26 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 地球科學 /地球科学 (dìqiú kēxué) — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Danish: geovidenskab — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Dutch: aardwetenschappen — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Dutch: geowetenschappen — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Finnish: geotiede — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • French: géoscience — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • French: science de la terre — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • German: Geowissenschaften — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Hungarian: földtudomány — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Irish: domhaneolaíocht — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Irish: geo-eolaíocht — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Japanese: 地球科学 (chikyū kagaku) — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Kazakh: геоғылым (geoğylym) — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Kazakh: Жер туралы ғылым (Jer turaly ğylym) — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Khmer: វិទ្យាសាស្ត្រផែនដី (vittyea sas phaen dei) — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Korean: 지구과학 (jigugwahak) — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Norwegian Bokmål: geovitenskap — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Polish: nauka o Ziemi — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Portuguese: ciência da terra — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Punjabi: ਧਰਤੀ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ (dhartī vigiāna) — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Russian: нау́ки о Земле́ (naúki o Zemlé) — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Spanish: geociencia — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Spanish: ciencia de la terra — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Swahili: jiosayansi — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Thai: วิทยาศาสตร์โลก — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth
  • Turkish: yer bilimi — any of the sciences dealing with the planet Earth