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GEOGRAPHY
geography, geographics
(noun) study of the earth’s surface; includes people’s responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
geography (countable and uncountable, plural geographies)
A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography; (archaic) an atlas or gazetteer.
The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
(astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.
(chiefly upper-class UK, euphemism) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
(figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
(chiefly business & marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.
Synonyms
• (upper-class British slang for lavatory): loo; see also bathroom
Source: Wiktionary
Ge*og"ra*phy, n.; pl. Geographies. Etym: [F. géographie, l. geographia, fr. Gr. Graphic.]
1. The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.
2. A treatise on this science. Astronomical, or Mathematical, 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.
– Physical geography 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.
– Political geography treats of the different countries into which earth is divided with regard to political and social and institutions and conditions.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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