# geography
## English

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### Etymology

From Middle French géographie, from Latin geōgraphia, from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία (geōgraphía, “a description of the earth”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”).
Use in reference to lavatories derives from the mid-20th century euphemism "show one the geography of the house" in reference to pointing out the toilets.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /dʒiˈɒɡɹəfi/, /ˈdʒɒɡɹəfi/
* (US) IPA: /d͡ʒiˈɑɡɹəfi/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: ge‧og‧ra‧phy
* Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

### Noun

geography (countable and uncountable, plural geographies)
* The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:geography
    Some amount of basic geography is part of any good curriculum for primary and secondary education.
** 2021, Mark Steyn, “Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization”, in Imprimis, volume 50, number 4/5, Hillsdale College, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:These days, instead of going off behind the bike shed during recess to learn about sex, kids need to sneak behind the bike shed to do a little bit of closeted geography or closeted Latin.
* (archaic, countable) An atlas or gazetteer.
* (archaic, countable) A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography.
* Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
** 1973, Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization:The geography of the Andes approaches never made transportation easy; routes to Bogota, Quito, La Paz, and Cuzco were so precipitous as to slow down the development of those Spanish cities in the interior.
* Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
* (astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
* The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.
* (chiefly upper-class UK, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
** 1967 December 21, The Listener, page 802:The Business Man Jocular: ‘I say, where's the geography, old son?’
* (figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
* (chiefly business and marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.
    We currently operate only in EU countries but we're building prototype services for various geographies.

#### Synonyms

* (upper-class British slang for lavatory): loo; see also Thesaurus:bathroom

#### Derived terms

* aerogeography
* anthropogeography
* astrogeography
* biogeography
* cytogeography
* ecogeographic
* ecogeographical
* ecogeography
* ethnogeography
* exogeography
* galactography
* geographer
* geographic
* geographical
* geographism
* geographist
* geographize
* geography fair
* geographylike
* human geography
* hydrogeography
* ichthyogeography
* macrogeography
* microgeography
* mythogeography
* mytho-geography
* neogeography
* neurogeography
* nongeography
* nosogeography
* ornithogeography
* palaeogeography
* paleogeography
* pathogeography
* pedogeography
* phenogeography
* phylogeography
* physical geography
* physiogeography
* phytogeography
* political geography
* psychogeography
* pyrogeography
* sociogeography
* xenogeography
* zoogeography
* zoögeography

#### Descendants

* ⇒ Malay: geografi

#### Translations
### See also

* geography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### References

* Oxford English Dictionary. "geography, n."