Mother Earth

English

Proper noun

Mother Earth

1. The personification of the Earth, (chiefly) conceived as a fertile, nurturing, and loving mother.
   • 1928 February 25 – March 3, Arthur Conan Doyle, “When the World Screamed”, in The Professor Challenger Stories […], London: John Murray, […], published [1952], →OCLC, page 574:

     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.

2. (religion) The goddess of the earth in various cultures.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 73:

     [P]igs and sows by their exceeding fruitfulness would in their hour of sacrifice remind old mother Earth of what was expected from her!

Synonyms

• (personification): Earth; Gaia, Gaea; Terra
• (goddess of the earth): Gaia, Gaea, Ge, Rhea, Demeter (Greek); Terra, Tellus (Roman); Earth Mother (neopagan) ; Bhumi (Hinduism)

Related terms

• Mother Nature

Translations

personification of Earth

• Apache:

  Western Apache: nii gúsdzâné

• Danish: Moder Jord
• Dutch: Moeder Aarde f
• Finnish: maaemo
• French: Terre-Mère (fr) f
• Galician: Nai Terra f
• Georgian: დედამიწა (dedamic̣a)
• German: Mutter Erde f
• Hindi: पृथ्वी (hi) f (pŕthvī)
• Italian: Madre Terra f
• Japanese: 母地球 (ははちきゅう, haha-chikyū)
• Polish: Matka Ziemia f
• Portuguese: Mãe Terra f
• Russian: Мать-Земля f (Matʹ-Zemlja)
• Sanskrit: पृथ्वी (sa) f (pṛthvī)
• Southern Yukaghir: лэбиэд эмэй (lebied emej)
• Spanish: Madre Tierra f
• Swedish: Moder Jord c
• Turkish: Doğa Ana
• Welsh: y Fam Ddaear f

Anagrams

• Earth Mother, earth mother