FACE OF THE EARTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does face of the earth mean? 

• FACE OF THE EARTH (noun)
  The noun FACE OF THE EARTH has 1 sense:

1. the state or fact of existing

  Familiarity information: FACE OF THE EARTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FACE OF THE EARTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state or fact of existing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

being; beingness; existence; face of the earth

Context example:

he appeared on the face of the earth one day

Hypernyms ("face of the earth" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Attribute:

existent; existing (having existence or being or actuality)

nonexistent (not having existence or being or actuality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "face of the earth"):

actuality (the state of actually existing objectively)

eternity; timeless existence; timelessness (a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife)

preexistence (existing in a former state or previous to something else)

coexistence (existing peacefully together)

subsistence (the state of existing in reality; having substance)

presence (the state of being present; current existence)

life (the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living)

aliveness; animation; life; living (the condition of living or the state of being alive)

life (a characteristic state or mode of living)

transcendence; transcendency (a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience)

possibility; possibleness (capability of existing or happening or being true)

 Context examples 

There was once a king, whose queen had hair of the purest gold, and was so beautiful that her match was not to be met with on the whole face of the earth.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I still felt as a wanderer on the face of the earth; but I experienced firmer trust in myself and my own powers, and less withering dread of oppression.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The question to be debated was, “whether the Yahoos should be exterminated from the face of the earth?”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Well, it's up to you to say what you will do, said he; for my part I have a score to settle with these monkey-folk, and if it ends by wiping them off the face of the earth I don't see that the earth need fret about it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he got hold of the fur and tore it off, and her golden hair and beautiful form were seen, and she could no longer hide herself: so she washed the soot and ashes from her face, and showed herself to be the most beautiful princess upon the face of the earth.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It belongs to a very large, a very strong, and, by all analogy, a very fierce animal which exists upon the face of the earth, but has not yet come under the notice of science.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a moment he disappeared, and when his wife came in and looked for him, she found only a white dove; and it said to her, Seven years must I fly up and down over the face of the earth, but every now and then I will let fall a white feather, that will show you the way I am going; follow it, and at last you may overtake and set me free.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)