geography
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- noun
- /dʒiˈɑɡrəfi/
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geografía
- In our geography class, we learned about different climates around the world.
- physical geography
- human geography
- cultural geography
OK, there's science, English, math, miscellaneous, history, geography, science or technology.
- OK, there's science, English, math, miscellaneous, history, geography, science or technology.
- Sat at a desk, crunch numbers, learn geography, learn history.
- If you still can refer to your map or if your memory of geography is OK.
Examples
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We teach the children English, reading, writing... ...history, geography, arithmetic and Bible stories.
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But as I see it, the geography of Southeast Asia is about people.
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And one of them was we had to learn the geography of Africa.
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We had geography together, remember?
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It's going to help us at least grasp the geography of this crisis.
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My first lesson was geography.
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Flat Kansas, we're having a geography test.
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Africa has its physical barriers, but the relevant geography in the West is mostly psychological and social.
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Any high-school student in geography can tell you that.
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Samantha Herr is an M.A. student in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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The study of the Earth's surface and how people live with land and climate
An informal short name for the school subjects geography or geology
Compounds
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The study of where people make, move, and use goods and services
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The study of Earth's natural features and how they change, like mountains and rivers
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Study that shows how words and sounds vary across places, usually on maps
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
geography = geo + graph + y
The form is built from classical elements meaning roughly 'earth' and 'writing/description', but the modern sense 'study of the Earth's surface' is only partly predictable from those parts.
Etymology
The word geography comes from Greek parts geo- meaning 'earth' and -graphy meaning 'writing' or 'drawing', as in geology and graph. So, geography means 'writing about the earth', which is why it studies maps, land, climate and how people live there.