Emily Dickinson Lexicon

earth (-s, -'s), n. [OE < IE 'ground'.] (webplay: above, act, air, all, ancient, break, called, circumference, country, days, distinct, divine, existence, fall, fine, generally, ground, heavenly, hide, hours, inodorous, land, lately, lifted, little, Mars, month, one prove, round, same scenes, sea, signifies, soil, spade, substance, sun, supposed, things, throw, turning, up, water, world, worm, years).

1. Terrestrial globe; home planet for humans, animals, plants, and other entities; [metonymy] Creation; [personification] Mother Nature.
2. Third major rotating satellite from the sun; heavenly body that spins as it orbits around the center star of the solar system.
3. World; biosphere; ecosystem; domain of living beings and material things.
4. Land; countryside; terra firma; inhabitable sphere below the atmosphere.
5. Mortality; mortal life; the present dimension; the known world; the current state of existence.
6. Cosmos; orb; universe; new frontier.
7. Planet; geographic sphere that has reversible electromagnetic fields.
8. Ground; land; humus; organic matter; [fig.] graveyard; place of burial; [fig.] cycle of life and death.
9. Dirt; loam; soil suited for cultivation.
10. Treasures of this world; [fig.] temporal happiness, success, or knowledge.
11. The terrestrial kingdom; the lower realm of being.
12. Surface; horizon; dry land; crust of the planet.
13. Mankind; humankind; the human family; the people who inhabit the planet; all the generations who have inhabited this world.
14. Active, dynamic, resonating blue-water global entity.
15. Living creatures; inhabitants of the world.
16. Globe with north-south and east-west orientations.
17. This tiny world; this limited sphere of existence; mortality as opposed to other states.
18. Glorious globe; beauty of the planet.
19. Paradise; primordial state; pre-mortal life; garden of Eden; Eden-like place.