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Geographer

Definition: Geographer

Geographer

Noun

1. An expert on geography.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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

Specialty Definitions: Geographer

DomainDefinitions

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 KremerMercator. (references)
Specialty definitions using "geographer": GEOGRAPHER, GEOGRAPHER, PHYSICALMohakabad'. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Geographer

DomainTitle

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Geographer

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Geographer

ThumbnailDescription & 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%7538,535

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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 MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "geographer" (pronounced jēÄ"grufer)
7-ē Ä" g r u f erchoreographer.
6-Ä" g r u f erautobiographer, biographer, cinematographer, crystallographer, demographer, lexicographer, oceanographer, photographer, pornographer.
5-g r u f erstenographer, videographer.
3-u f eraquifer, conifer, Lucifer, philosopher.

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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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Geographer


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 65 6F 67 72 61 70 68 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100101 01101111 01100111 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101000 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#111 &#103 &#114 &#97 &#112 &#104 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 006F 0067 0072 0061 0070 0068 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41718173846782747184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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