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earthling
Earthling is a term commonly used in science fiction to identify Earth born organisms as opposed to extraterrestrials. Similar terms used in some science fiction stories are Terran and Gaian.
==History==
Historically the term "earthling" referred to a mortal inhabitant of the Earth as opposed to spiritual or divine entities. In Early Modern English, the word was used with the intention of contrasting "earth" with "heaven", and so presenting man as an inhabitant of the sublunary sphere, as opposed to heavenly creatures or deities.〔Thomas Nashe, ''Christ's Tears'' (1593, 1613), p. 124: "Wee (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmost subiects.";
Drummond of Hawthornden, ''Poems'' (1711), p. 31 (written ca. 1630): "Nature gaz'd on with such a curious eye, That earthlings oft her deem'd a deity."
Cited after ''Oxford English Dictionary''.〕 The derivation from the noun ''earth'' by means of the suffix ''-ling'' is already seen in Old English ''eyrþling'', in the meaning "ploughman". The sense of "inhabitant of earth" is first attested in 1593. Its use in science fiction dates to 1949, in ''Red Planet'' by Robert A. Heinlein.
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