geography
pronunciation
How to pronounce geography in British English:
UK [dʒiˈɒɡrəfi]
How to pronounce geography in American English:
US [dʒiˈɑːɡrəfi]
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- Noun:
- study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation
Word Origin
- geography
- geography: [16] All the English ‘geo-’ words (geography, geology [18], geometry [14], etc) come ultimately from Greek gē ‘earth’, a word probably of pre-Indo-European origin, whose Homeric form gaia was used as the name of the Greek goddess of the earth. Geography denotes literally the ‘describing of the earth’; geometry the ‘measuring of the earth’ (from its early application to the measuring of land and surveying).=> geology, geometry
- geography (n.)
- "the science of description of the earth's surface in its present condition," 1540s, from Middle French géographie (15c.), from Latin geographia, from Greek geographia "description of the earth's surface," from geo- "earth" + -graphia "description" (see -graphy).
Example
- 1. This isn 't limited to language and geography .
- 2. The geography of supply chains will change .
- 3. The researchers therefore asked whether geography offered a better explanation .
- 4. Climate and geography vary from the freezing northern plateaus to the semi-tropical south .
- 5. He recalled the geography from earlier .