Geography

Definition: Geography

Geography

Noun

1. Study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation.

Date "geography" was first used: 1542. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Geography

Domain	Definitions
Census	A collective term referring to the types of geographic areas used by the Census Bureau in its data collection and tabulation operations, including their structure, designations, and relationships to one another. (references)
Dream Interpretation	To dream of studying geography, denotes that you will travel much and visit places of renown. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Mining	The study of all aspects of the Earth's surface including its natural and political divisions, the distribution and differentiation of areas, andoften, people in relationship to their environment. (references)
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Synonym: Geography

Synonym: geographics (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Geography

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Situation	Topography, geography, chorography; map.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Geography

English words defined with "geography": area ♦ cosmography, country ♦ dialect geography, Doctrine of the sphere ♦ economic geography ♦ geographer, geographic, geographical, geographically, Geographies, geopolitics ♦ -graphy ♦ linguistic geography ♦ palaeogeography, paleogeography, Physical geography, Political geography ♦ Selenography. (references)

Specialty definitions using "geography": AAG, academic research, animal geography, assignment area, Assistant to the Associate Director ♦ Block group, BOUNDARY ♦ Census geography, collection geography ♦ first stage of basic education ♦ GEO, geographic entity, Geographic Identifiers, Geographic Update System in Support of Intercensal Estimates, Geography, Geography Quick Report ♦ human geography, Hundred Percent Detail File ♦ IGU, INEGI, INTELLIGENCE SPECIALIST ♦ Master Address File Update File, Misnomers, Mount of the congregation ♦ physical sciences, PLANT PATHOLOGIST, primary education, Public Law 105-119 ♦ Sample Edited Detail File, Sheba, Single MIM-Based Integrated Mapping System, social and behavioral science, social and behavioural science, social geography ♦ tabulation geography ♦ Without Correction for ICM. (references)

Etymologies containing "geography": Anthropogeography ♦ Biogeography ♦ Phytogeography. (references)

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Modern Usage: Geography

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Let's just start with Geography. (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) Well, you know earlier she was talking about geography. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)
Lyrics	Don't know much about geography (Wonderful World; performing artist: Herman's Hermits)
Clever	Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Geography of the Body (1943) Bubbles of Geography (1927) Dud's Geography Lesson (1920) Geography Junction (2001) Alberta Geography Series (1994)
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Commercial Usage: Geography

Domain	Title
Books	Bamboo Fly Rod Suite: Reflections on Fishing and the Geography of Grace (reference) Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (reference) Don't Know Much About Geography (reference) Everything You Need to Know About Geography Homework (Scholastic Homework Reference Series) (reference) Holman Bible Atlas: A Complete Guide to the Expansive Geography of Biblical History (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Applied Geography (reference) Bulletin Of Asian Geography (reference) Economic Geography (reference) Geografiska Annaler - Series A Physical Geography (reference) Geographical Abstracts : Human Geography (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	The Standard Deviants - Learn World Geography (reference) Physical Geography of The United States (reference) The Standard Deviants - World Geography Box Set (reference) The West, Vol. 07: The Geography of Hope (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Geography (reference) Geography 1981-83 (reference) Victim Of Geography (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Disney's Zoog Genius: Language Arts, History, Geography (reference) United States Geography (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Image Slideshow: Geography

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Photo Album: Geography

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	First attempt at a bathymetric map by Matthew Fontaine Maury Published in The Physical Geography of the Sea Showed vast relatively shoal area in Mid-Atlantic Gave birth to notion of "Telegraphic Plateau" Helped sell Trans-Atlantic telegraphic cable.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Faculty and staff of Department of Geography at Shanghai Normal University.Credit: Small World.
	Geography of Hope [Slide 97CS2991].Credit: Ken Hammond.		Geography of Hope [Slide 97CS2992].Credit: Ken Hammond.
	... isotopes revealing the inner geography of the body. / [WHO] p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Almasy..		A class in mathematical geography studying earth's rotation around the sun, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Books. Book entitled Human Geography.Credit: Library of Congress.		Books. Human Geography front cover.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Familiar Quotations: Geography

Author	Quotation
Ralph Waldo Emerson	In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
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Use in Literature: Geography

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	But neither geography nor tranquillity could come all at once, and Emma was now in a humour to resolve that they should both come in time.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	A little boy had been taught geography by an old woman who kept two brushes in her wardrobe.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Geography

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		You can perform targeted searches by various criteria including geography, date, as well as topics related to Fuchs' dystrophy and related conditions. (references)
		Up-to-date information on the geography of malaria�which species are present where, whether or not chloroquine-resistant parasites are there, and which seasons of the year carry risk�is available at international travel clinics and from CDC and WHO (see "Resources"). (references)
		There is currently limited information on basic questions such as who uses acupuncture, for what indications is acupuncture most commonly sought, what variations in experience and techniques used exist among acupuncture practitioners, and are there differences in these patterns by geography or ethnic group. (references)
Business		The RDN is primarily a coastal patrol navy as dictated by geography, although naval patrols extend throughout the Kingdom of Denmark. (references)
		It is worth noting that California conditions and technology most closely approximate the geography and crops found in Western Argentina. (references)
		There are approximately 30 modifications to the basic telecom license, depending on services provided by the telecom operator and the geography. (references)
Economic History	Hungary	As with any country, Hungarian security attitudes are shaped largely by history and geography. (references)
	Botswana	Because of history and geography, Botswana has long had deep ties to the economy of South Africa. (references)
	Yemen	Yemen's unique culture, history and geography offer attractive prospects for tourism development. (references)
Minorities	Romania	A government decree permits students in state-funded primary and secondary schools to be taught in their own language, with the exception of secondary school courses on the history and geography of Romania. (references)
Women	Mexico	According to a 1999 survey by the National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Computation, some form of domestic abuse occurs in one of every three homes. (references)
	Brazil	A May 2000 study by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IGBE) indicated that in the country's six largest metropolitan areas, the median income for women was 67 percent that for men. (references)
Worker Rights	Bhutan	This, along with the country's rugged geography, results in a predominantly self-employed agricultural workforce. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.
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Spoken Usage: Geography

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Peter Jennings	I was so bad in geography. And when I went to live in the Middle East, I had to learn, you know, that I lived in Beirut and that Syria was there and Jordan was over there.
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Usage Frequency: Geography

"Geography" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.46% of the time. "Geography" is used about 1,489 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)	99.46%	1,481	5,481
Noun (proper)	0.4%	6	143,867
Noun (common)	0.13%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	1,489	N/A

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

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Expressions: Geography

Expressions using "geography": animal geography ♦ astronomical geography ♦ dialect geography ♦ economic geography ♦ human geography ♦ linguistic geography ♦ local geography and history ♦ or Mathematical geography ♦ physical geography ♦ political geography ♦ social geography. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "geography": geography-both, geography-student.
	Ending with "geography": state-geography, Tele-Geography.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Geography

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
geography	3,064	geography map of the world	49
world geography	724	geography of italy	48
national geography	202	geography of philippine	46
brief descriptive geography historical palestine sketch	174	geography job	42
geography quiz	161	five theme geography	39
geography map	119	geography of usa	38
geography game	110	australia geography	36
geography lesson plan	77	geography louisiana tech	36
china geography	65	cultural geography	36
japan geography	65	the 5 theme of geography	35
canada geography	63	geography terms	34
mexico geography	58	geography test	33
canadian geography	56	geography worksheets	33
united state geography	56	california geography	33
kid geography	54	egypt geography	33
us geography	54	africa geography	32
geography of france	52	geography bee	31
geography trivia	52	human geography	31
india geography	51	geography of spain	31
physical geography	51	geography of europe	30
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Modern Translations: Geography

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

Albanian		gjeografi. (various references)

Arabic		‏علم الجغرافية, ‏جغرافية. (various references)

Asturian		xeografía. (various references)

Basque		geografia. (various references)

Bulgarian		география. (various references)

Cebuano		heyograpiya. (various references)

Chamorro		yeografia. (various references)

Chinese		地理 . (various references)

Cornish		dorydhyeth. (various references)

Czech		zemìpis. (various references)

Danish		geografi. (various references)

Dutch		geografie. (various references)

Esperanto		geografio. (various references)

Faeroese		landalæra. (various references)

Farsi		علم جغرافیا, جغرافیا, جغرافی , شرح (Circumstance, Description, Explanation, Exposition, Gloss, Innuendo, Legend, Narrative, Recitation, Relation, Sketch, Statement, Story, Tale, Treatise). (various references)

Finnish		maantiede. (various references)

French		géographie. (various references)

Frisian		geografy, ierdrykskunde. (various references)

German		erdkunde, geographie. (various references)

Greek		γεωγραφία. (various references)

Hebrew		כתיבת �"ארץ, �'או�'רפי�". (various references)

Hungarian		földrajz. (various references)

Indonesian		geografi, ilmu bumi. (various references)

Inuktitut		ilitausimajut nunaliriniit. (various references)

Italian		geografia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		地理学 , 地理 , ジェット燃料 (diethylene glycol, diopter, gem, gemstone, gender, gender gap, general, general strike, generalist, generate, generation, generation gap, generator, generic, generic brand, genetic, genetic algorithms, genetic system, genocide, gentleman, geology, geometric, geometry, Geotopia, gerontocracy, gerontology, Japanese External Trade Organization, jealousy, jelly, Jenkins, Jerry, jet fuel, JETRO, The End). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ジオグラフィー , ちりがく, ちり (dirt, dust). (various references)

Korean		지리학. (various references)

Macedonian		geografija. (various references)

Manx		cheer-oaylleeaght. (various references)

Norwegian		geografi. (various references)

Occitan		geografia. (various references)

Papiamen		geografia. (various references)

Pig Latin		eographygay

Portuguese		geografia. (various references)

Provencal		geografia. (various references)

Romanian		geografie. (various references)

Russian		география. (various references)

Samoan		tala i le lalolagi. (various references)

Sepedi		thutafase. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		geografija. (various references)

Spanish		geografía (geographic, geographical). (various references)

Swedish		geografi. (various references)

Thai		� ูมิศาสตร์. (various references)

Turkish		coğrafya. (various references)

Turkmen		geografiяa (r). (various references)

Ukranian		географія. (various references)

Vietnamese		khoa địa lý, địa lý học. (various references)

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

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Ancestral Language Translations: Geography

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	geographia. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	geographia. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Geography

Derivations
	Words ending with "geography": biogeography, paleogeography, phytogeography, zoogeography. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Geography" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: geogra, geograph, geographia, geograpy, geogrphy, georgraphy, gepgraphy, goegraphy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Geography"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "geography" (pronounced jēÄ"grufē)
8	j ē Ä" g r u f ē	phytogeography.
7	-ē Ä" g r u f ē	bibliography, choreography, hagiography, historiography, radiography.
6	-Ä" g r u f ē	astrophotography, autobiography, biography, chromatography, cinematography, crystallography, demography, iconography, lithography, mammography, oceanography, orthography, photography, polarography, pornography, topography, typography.
5	-g r u f ē	calligraphy, discography.
4	-r u f ē	apostrophe, atrophy, catastrophe, dystrophy.
3	-u f ē	philosophy.
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Anagrams: Geography

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-h-o-p-r-y"
	-1 letter: geophagy.
	-2 letters: hypogea.
	-3 letters: gherao, gopher, grapey, hogger.
	-4 letters: agger, aggro, apery, eggar, ephor, gager, gaper, gayer, gerah, gorge, grape, graph, grapy, grego, grope, harpy, hayer, hoagy, hoary, hoper, hyper, opera, pager, pareo, parge, pargo, payer, payor, phage, pogey, porgy, raggy, raphe, repay, ropey, yager.
	-5 letters: aero, aery, ager, agog, ahoy, aper, eggy, epha, ergo.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-h-o-p-r-y"
	+3 letters: biogeography, zoogeography.
	+5 letters: geographically, paleogeography, phytogeography.
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