geography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒiˈɒɡɹəfi/
ipa: /ˈdʒɒɡɹəfi/
ipa: /d͡ʒiˈɑɡɹəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: geographies
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.
Senses: examples: text: Some amount of basic geography is part of any good curriculum for primary and secondary education.
text: 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.
ref: 2021, Mark Steyn, “Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization”, in Imprimis, volume 50, number 4/5, Hillsdale College, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
glosses: An atlas or gazetteer.
examples: text: Geographie is (according to Ptolomei) an imitation of the picture of the vvhole Earth. […] VVe take not the Earth ſimply in its ovvn nature as it is an element, for ſo it belongeth to Philoſophy, but for the terreſtrial Globe, ſo it is the ſubiect of Geographie, and is defined to bee a Sphericall body, proportionably compoſed of earth, and vvater.
ref: 1621, P[eter] H[eylyn], “The Generall Præcognita of Geographie. Terra.”, in Microcosmus, or A Little Description of the Great World. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Litchfield, and Iames Short printers to the famous Universitie, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1973, Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization:
glosses: Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
glosses: Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
glosses: The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.
examples: text: The Business Man Jocular: ‘I say, where's the geography, old son?’
ref: 1967 December 21, The Listener, page 802:
qualifier: chiefly upper-class UK
glosses: The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
examples: text: The actual geography of the murderous mind is still a mystery.
glosses: The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
examples: text: We currently operate only in EU countries but we're building prototype services for various geographies.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.
Synonyms: sense: upper-class British slang for lavatory
word: loo
word: bathroom
word: geography
Hypernyms: word: science
Meronyms: word: human geography
word: physical geography
word: geomorphology
word: biogeography
word: climatology
word: meteorology
word: pedology
word: palaeogeography
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
Related terms: word: Earth
word: landform
word: map
word: atlas
word: gazetteer
word: latitude
word: longitude
word: altitude
word: settlement
word: continent
word: subcontinent
word: island
word: mountain
word: valley
word: body of water
word: ocean
word: river
word: lake
word: Africa
word: Antarctica
word: Australia
word: North America
word: South America
word: Eurasia
word: Europe
word: Asia
word: Nearctic
word: Palearctic
word: Afrotropic
word: Indomalaya
word: Australasia
word: Neotropic
word: Oceania
word: Antarctic
word: city
word: town
word: village
word: bridge
word: road
word: tunnel
word: country
word: administrative division
word: geographer
word: cartographer