"landsider" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: landsiders [plural]
Etymology: From landside + -er. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|landside|-er|id2=inhabitant}} landside + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} landsider (plural landsiders)
  1. (chiefly science fiction or fantasy) Someone who lives on land (as opposed to the sea or space). Categories (topical): Celestial inhabitants, Fantasy, Science fiction Synonyms: groundsider, dirtsider [derogatory] Related terms: Earthsider, Moonsider, planetsider, spacesider

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          "ref": "1983, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, page 103",
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          "ref": "1985, Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, London: Century Publishing, page 101",
          "text": "He wanted to stop at Petra's bunk and tell her about his home, about what his birthdays were usually like, just tell her it was his birthday so she'd say something about it being a happy one. But nobody told birthdays. It was childish. It was what landsiders did.",
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          "ref": "1987, Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, page 82",
          "text": "We'll be going out with the tide, with an extra five knot of current running where the river is usually slowest. I just thought you might be in a hurry to move at this end, what with the way your friends are keeping out of sight down with the codfish smell. The way I hear tell, you landsider don't favor fish odor too much.",
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          "ref": "1988, Thomas T[hurston] Thomas, An Honorable Defense, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, page 108",
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          "ref": "1993, Tim Madge, Long Voyage Home: True Stories From Britain's Twilight Maritime Years, London […]: Simon & Schuster, page 146",
          "text": "It is easy for the landsider to forget that seafarers came in many disguises. We tend to think of officers and ratings — deck sailors. We might, if pricked, think about the engine room crew — who with the onset of oil, then diesel, just kept on shrinking per ship.",
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