Geographer

Definition: Geographer

Geographer

Noun

1. An expert on geography.

Date "geographer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Geographer

Domain	Definitions
Satire	GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside. Habeam, geographer of wide reknown, Native of Abu-Keber's ancient town, In passing thence along the river Zam To the adjacent village of Xelam, Bewildered by the multitude of roads, Got lost, lived long on migratory toads, Then from exposure miserably died, And grateful travelers bewailed their guide. Henry Haukhorn. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Occupations	Studies nature and use of areas of earth's surface, relating and interpreting interactions of physical and cultural phenomena: Conducts research on physical and climatic aspects of area or region, making direct observation of landforms, climates, soils, plants, and animals within area under study and incorporating available knowledge from related scientific fields, such as physics, geology, oceanography, meteorology, and biology. Studies human activities within given area, such as ethnic distribution, economic activity, and political organization. Acts as adviser or consultant to governments and international organizations on subjects, such as economic exploitation of regions and determination of ethnic and natural boundaries between nations or administrative areas. May use surveying equipment or meteorological instruments. May construct and interpret maps, graphs, and diagrams. May specialize in particular branch of cultural geography, such as economic, political, urban, social, or historical geography. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Geographer

English words defined with "geographer": Gerardus Mercator, Gerhard Kremer ♦ Mercator. (references)

Specialty definitions using "geographer": GEOGRAPHER, GEOGRAPHER, PHYSICAL ♦ Mohakabad'. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Geographer

Domain	Title
Books	American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (reference) Becoming a Geographer (Space, Place, and Geography) (reference) Between the Mountains: A Portrait of Eastern Washington (Northwest Geographer Series, No. 1) (reference) Griffith Taylor: Antarctic Scientist and Pioneer Geographer (Carleton Library, No. 145) (reference) Journeys (Young Geographer) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	California Geographer (reference) Florida Geographer (reference) Geography C-w Primary Geographer And Teaching Geography (reference) National Geographer (reference) North American Geographer (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Geographer

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Photo Album: Geographer

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Title page with five men seated at desks writing, possibly includes the author, Strabo, a Greek geographer.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Geographer

"Geographer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Geographer" is used about 75 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	75	38,535

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Geographer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
geographer	8
geographer professional	6
canadian geographer	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Geographer

Language		Translations for "geographer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		aardrykskundige. (various references)

Albanian		gjeograf. (various references)

Arabic		‏العالم بالجغرافيا. (various references)

Bulgarian		географ. (various references)

Czech		geograf. (various references)

Danish		geograf. (various references)

Dutch		geograaf. (various references)

Esperanto		geografo, geografiisto. (various references)

Farsi		جغرافی دان . (various references)

Finnish		maantieteilijä. (various references)

French		géographe. (various references)

German		geograph. (various references)

Greek		γεωγράφος. (various references)

Hungarian		földrajztudós. (various references)

Indonesian		ahli ilmu bumi. (various references)

Italian		geografo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		地理学者 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ちりがくしゃ. (various references)

Manx		cheer-oayllee. (various references)

Norwegian		geograf. (various references)

Papiamen		geógrafo. (various references)

Pig Latin		eographergay

Portuguese		geógrafo (geographic). (various references)

Romanian		geograf. (various references)

Russian		географ. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		geograf. (various references)

Spanish		geógrafo. (various references)

Swedish		geograf. (various references)

Thai		นัก� ูมิศาสตร์. (various references)

Turkish		coğrafyacı. (various references)

Turkmen		geograf (r). (various references)

Ukranian		географ. (various references)

Vietnamese		nh� địa lý. (various references)

Welsh		daearyddwr. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Geographer

Derivations
	Words beginning with "geographer": geographers. (additional references)
	Words ending with "geographer": biogeographer, phytogeographer, zoogeographer. (additional references)
	Words containing "geographer": biogeographers, phytogeographers, zoogeographers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Geographer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: geograph, geographia. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Geographer"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "geographer" (pronounced jēÄ"grufer)
7	-ē Ä" g r u f er	choreographer.
6	-Ä" g r u f er	autobiographer, biographer, cinematographer, crystallographer, demographer, lexicographer, oceanographer, photographer, pornographer.
5	-g r u f er	stenographer, videographer.
3	-u f er	aquifer, conifer, Lucifer, philosopher.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Geographer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-g-h-o-p-r-r"
	-1 letter: ergograph.
	-3 letters: progger, regorge.
	-4 letters: apogee, gherao, gopher, gorger, groper, harper, hearer, hogger, raggee, reaper, regear, reggae, rehear.
	-5 letters: agger, aggro, agree, eager, eagre, eggar, egger, ephor, gager, gaper, gerah, gorge, grape, graph, grego, grope, hoper, opera, pager, pareo, parer, parge, pargo, peage, perea, phage, ragee, raper, raphe, repeg, repro, roger, roper.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-g-h-o-p-r-r"
	+1 letter: geographers.
	+3 letters: biogeographer, zoogeographer.
	+4 letters: biogeographers, stereographing, zoogeographers.
	+5 letters: phrasemongering, phytogeographer, roentgenography.
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