terra firma – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
terra firma
n.
(Latin) dry land, solid ground
Terra firma
Terra firma is a Latin phrase meaning "
solid earth" . The phrase refers to the dry
land mass on the earth's surface and is used to differentiate from the sea or air.
terra firma
Noun
1. the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground"
(synonym) land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground
(hypernym) object, physical object
(hyponym) America, the Americas
(part-holonym) Earth, world, globe
Terra firma
Solid ground
terra firma
Synonyms and related words:
acres, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, base, basement, basis, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, carpet, clay, clod, cover, crust, deck, dirt, dry land, dust, earth, floor, floor covering, flooring, fond, footing, foundation, freehold, fundament, fundamental, glebe, grassland, ground, grounds, groundwork, hardpan, land, landholdings, lithosphere, marginal land, marl, mold, parquet, pave, pavement, paving, principle, radical, real estate, real property, region, regolith, riprap, rock bottom, rudiment, seat, sill, sod, soil, solid ground, solid rock, stereobate, stylobate, subaerial deposit, subsoil, substratum, substruction, substructure, surfacing, terra, terrain, territory, the country, topsoil, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, woodland|
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
