Terrene

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɛˈɹiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Anglo-Norman, from Latin terrēnus, from terra ("earth").

Full definition of terrene

Adjective

1. Pertaining to the earth; earthly, terrestrial, worldly as opposed to heavenly.
• unknown date Sir Walter Raleigh:God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene.
• unknown date Hickok:Common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our terrene experience.
• 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ’s terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.
• 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:For the earth was both celestial and terrene, the down here and the up there.

Related terms

• superterrene
• terra
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• territorial
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Noun

Origin 2