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geography

noun
/dʒiˈɒɡɹəfi/UK/d͡ʒiˈɑɡɹəfi/US

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) ▲ Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-) ▲ Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ 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.

  1. derived from γεωγραφία — “a description of the earth”
  2. derived from geōgraphia
  3. derived from geōgraphia Middle French géographie English geography From Middle French géographie
  4. derived from *gayader✻
  5. derived from der

Definitions

  1. The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are…

    The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.

    • 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.

  2. An atlas or gazetteer.

  3. A description of the earth

    A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Terrain

      Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.

      • 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.

    2. Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.

    3. Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.

    4. The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.

    5. The lavatory

      The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

      • The Business Man Jocular: ‘I say, where's the geography, old son?’

    6. The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.

      • The actual geography of the murderous mind is still a mystery.

    7. A territory

      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.

The neighborhood

Derived

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 · +9 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at geography. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at geography. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at geography

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA