mother earth
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.84 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The personification of the Earth, (chiefly) conceived as a fertile, nurturing, and loving mother; a personification invoked in many contexts, religious and nonreligious, including figurative use in scientific contexts.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: Mother Nature"
- "We had not gone thirty paces from the shaft when far down in the depths my iron dart shot into the nerve ganglion of old Mother Earth and the great moment had arrived."
- "[P]igs and sows by their exceeding fruitfulness would in their hour of sacrifice remind old mother Earth of what was expected from her!"
- "Rather than sacrifice to Mother Earth, Anglo-Saxons were encouraged to direct their prayers to the Virgin Mary[.]"