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<span class="bold large">G.ai/a</span> <span class="medium">|ˈgīə|</span><br/>
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<p class="paragraph"><span class="bold">1</span> (also <span class="bold">Gaea</span>, <span class="bold">Ge</span>) <span class="sans">Greek Mythology</span> the Earth personified as a goddess, daughter of <a href="#chaos">Chaos</a>. She was the mother and wife of <a href="#uranus">Uranus</a> (Heaven); their offspring included the Titans and the Cyclopes. [ORIGIN: Greek, ‘Earth.’]</p><br/>
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<p class="paragraph"><span class="bold">2</span> the earth viewed as a vast self-regulating organism. [ORIGIN: 1970s: coined by James Lovelock, at the suggestion of the writer William Golding, from the name of the goddess Gaia.]</p><br/>
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<span class="bold">G.ai/an</span> noun & adjective<br/>
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