earthsman
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editearthsman (plural earthsmen)
- (now rare) Someone from the planet Earth; an Earthman, an Earthling.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- For years he knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman.