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terrene

adj · noun · 8 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.

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Pronunciation

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  • /təˈɹiːn/
  • /tɛˈɹiːn/
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  • rhymes with -iːn

1

adj

Meaning 1

Pertaining to earth or the material world; earthly, terrestrial (as opposed to heavenly or marine).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Made of matter (as opposed to antimatter).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: contraterrene

3

adj

Meaning 3

Synonym of Terran (“of Earth; of terrestrial origin”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Terran

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The Earth's surface; the earth; the ground.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: poetic

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Dated form of tureen.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, dated

Examples

  • March 27, 1760, Horace Walpole, letter to George Montagu Esq. Execrable varnished pictures, chests, cabinets, commodes, tables, stands, boxes, riding on one another's backs, and loaded with terrenes, filligree, figures, and everything upon earth

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Synonym of Terran (“an inhabitant of Earth; an earthling”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Terran

Antonyms: none provided

7

adjective

Meaning 7

of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: tellurian, telluric, terrestrial

Antonyms: none provided

8

adjective satellite

Meaning 8

belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind
  • so terrene a being as himself

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: mundane

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Middle English terrene, from Anglo-Norman terriene, feminine of terrien, from Latin terrēnus, from terra (“earth”).

See terrene.