Meaning of Mother Earth | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The personification of the Earth, (chiefly) conceived as a fertile, nurturing, and loving mother; a personification invoked in many contexts, religious and nonreligious, including figurative use in scientific contexts.
2. The goddess of the earth in various cultures; a statue or figurine of this goddess.

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Examples

“Near-synonym: Mother Nature”

“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.”

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

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