geography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
business
marketing
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō)
Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)
Ancient Greek γεωγρᾰ́φος (geōgrắphos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
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Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)
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Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (-grăphĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek γεωγρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (geōgrăphĭ́ā)bor.
Latin geōgraphia
Middle French géographie
English geography
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.
Inflected forms:
form: geographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Some amount of basic geography is part of any good curriculum for primary and secondary education.
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.
gloss: An atlas or gazetteer.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
gloss: A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
examples: 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.
gloss: Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: The Business Man Jocular: ‘I say, where's the geography, old son?’
gloss: The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The actual geography of the murderous mind is still a mystery.
gloss: A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We currently operate only in EU countries but we're building prototype services for various geographies.
Synonyms: loo
geography
Related words: Earth
landform
map
atlas
gazetteer
latitude
longitude
altitude
settlement
continent
subcontinent
island
mountain
valley
body of water
ocean
river
lake
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
North America
South America
Eurasia
Europe
Asia
Nearctic
Palearctic
Afrotropic
Indomalaya
Australasia
Neotropic
Oceania
Antarctic
city
town
village
bridge
road
tunnel
country
administrative division
geographer
cartographer
Derived words: aerogeography
anthropogeography
astrogeography
biogeography
cytogeography
ecogeographic
ecogeographical
ecogeography
ethnogeography
exogeography
galactography
geographer
geographic
geographical
geographism
geographist
geographize
geography bee
geography cone
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
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