Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of the earth and its features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including human life and the effects of human activity.
- noun The physical characteristics, especially the surface features, of an area.
- noun A book on geography.
- noun An ordered arrangement of constituent elements.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The main features of a locality as regards its geographical position and general character; the knowledge derived from geographical research.
- noun The science of the description of the earth's surface in its present condition, and of the distribution upon it of its various products and animals, especially of mankind, etc. See phrases below.
- noun A book containing a description of the earth or of a portion of it; particularly, a school-book for teaching the science of geography.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, features, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited. It also includes the responses and adaptations of people to topography, climate, soil and vegetation.
- noun A treatise on this science.
- noun geography treats of the earth as a planet, of its shape, its size, its lines of latitude and longitude, its zones, and the phenomena due to to the earth's diurnal and annual motions.
- noun treats of the conformation of the earth's surface, of the distribution of land and water, of minerals, plants, animals, etc., and applies the principles of physics to the explanation of the diversities of climate, productions, etc.
- noun treats of the different countries into which earth is divided with regard to political and social and institutions and conditions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The study of the physical
structure and inhabitants of theEarth . - noun The physical structure of a particular
region ;terrain .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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But only one student found the title geography champ.
pjstar.com Home RSS 2009
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I think learning the geography is the most daunting element of using a real city.
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I was told by a reliable source that the geography is a little wacky in the book.
Methland (copy) ____Maggie 2009
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Don't worry, though, although the geography is a bit odd, the rest of Scandinavia is included much further down the list (Sweden represented by Mankell, omitting Sjowall/Wahloo, Tursten, Jungstedt, Theorin, Lackberg ... and Norway captured by Fossum, which omits Nesbo).
July 2008 Maxine 2008
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Don't worry, though, although the geography is a bit odd, the rest of Scandinavia is included much further down the list (Sweden represented by Mankell, omitting Sjowall/Wahloo, Tursten, Jungstedt, Theorin, Lackberg ... and Norway captured by Fossum, which omits Nesbo).
A strange geography Maxine 2008
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Don't worry, though, although the geography is a bit odd, the rest of Scandinavia is included much further down the list (Sweden represented by Mankell, omitting Sjowall/Wahloo, Tursten, Jungstedt, Theorin, Lackberg ... and Norway captured by Fossum, which omits Nesbo).
A strange geography Maxine 2008
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A small scientific space shuttle crash lands on a planet with some mysterious properties: the stars don't move, the sun rises in the west, and the geography is an inversion of Earth's (water is land and vice versa).
REVIEW: Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton 2007
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The trouble with a pure first-past-the-post system, particularly in a large geography, is that it rewards regional parties over national ones.
Matthew Yglesias » Israel: What a Center-Right Nation Looks Like 2009
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The trouble with a pure first-past-the-post system, particularly in a large geography, is that it rewards regional parties over national ones.
Matthew Yglesias » Israel: What a Center-Right Nation Looks Like 2009
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As someone who has taught middle school children in geography and earth science one of the first things taught to children is the difference between weather and climate.
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