Word family noun earth earthling earthiness adjective earthy earthly ≠ unearthly earthen verb unearth adverb earthward(s)
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishearthlingearth‧ling /ˈɜːθlɪŋ $ ˈɜːrθ-/ noun [countable] NAME OF A PERSONa human – used in science fiction storiesExamples from the Corpus
earthling• But earthlings attempting to borrow found a different reality.• Maybe he was in the body but he just liked getting kicked by earthlings.• Before long, they start surprising the stressed-out earthlings, first as small steel raptors, then as humanoids. 