terrene

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: ter=rene

CIDE DICTIONARY

terrene, n. 

 A tureen.  Walpole.  [1913 Webster]

terrene, a. [L. terrenus, fr. terra the earth. See Terrace.].

•  Of or pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, terrene substance.  Holland.  [1913 Webster]
•  Earthy; terrestrial.  [1913 Webster]

  "God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene."  [1913 Webster]

  "Be true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb, and terrene honor."  [1913 Webster]

  "Common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our terrene experience."  [1913 Webster]

terrene, n. [L. terrenum land, ground: cf. F. terrain.].

•  The earth's surface; the earth.  [1913 Webster]

  "Tenfold the length of this terrene."  [1913 Webster]
•  The surface of the ground.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

terrene, adj.
1 of the earth; earthy, worldly.
2 of earth, earthy.
3 of dry land; terrestrial.

Etymology

ME f. AF f. L terrenus f. terra earth

ROGET THESAURUS

terrene

World

N world, creation, nature, universe, earth, globe, wide world, cosmos, kosmos, terraqueous globe, sphere, macrocosm, megacosm, music of the spheres, heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean, starry cope, starry heaven, starry host, firmament, Midgard, supersensible regions, varuna, vault of heaven, canopy of heaven, celestial spaces, heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids, nebulae, galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea, ame no kawa, sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus, photosphere, chromosphere, solar system, planet, planetoid, comet, satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen, aerolite, meteor, planetary ring, falling star, shooting star, meteorite, uranolite, constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades, colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit, astronomy, uranography, uranology, cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony, eidouranion, orrery, geodesy, star gazing, star gazer, astronomer, observatory, planetarium, cosmic, cosmical, mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun, sublunary, subastral, solar, heliacal, lunar, celestial, heavenly, sphery, starry, stellar, sidereal, sideral, astral, nebular, uranic, in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun, die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht, earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice o, green calm below, blue quietness above, hanging in a golden chain this pendant World, nothing in nature is unbeautiful, silently as a dream the fabric rose, some touch of nature's genial glow, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, through knowledge we behold the World's creation.

Land

N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.