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GEOGRAPHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation
Synonyms:
geographics; geography
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("geography" is a kind of...):
earth science (any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geography"):
physical geography; physiography (the study of physical features of the earth's surface)
topography (precise detailed study of the surface features of a region)
economic geography (the branch of geography concerned with the production and distribution of commodities)
Derivation:
geographer (an expert on geography)
geographical (of or relating to the science of geography)
Context examples:
The books were of the most varied kind—history, geography, politics, political economy, botany, geology, law—all relating to England and English life and customs and manners.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I tried to explain that addition was the same upon sea or land, but that history and geography were not.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had no compass with me and was so slenderly acquainted with the geography of this part of the world that the sun was of little benefit to me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The discovery of microscopic shells of organisms that lived in warm shallow seas, and of spores and pollen from land plants, reveal that the geography and climate of Zealandia were dramatically different in the past.
(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)
It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The superintendent of Lowood (for such was this lady) having taken her seat before a pair of globes placed on one of the tables, summoned the first class round her, and commenced giving a lesson on geography; the lower classes were called by the teachers: repetitions in history, grammar, &c., went on for an hour; writing and arithmetic succeeded, and music lessons were given by Miss Temple to some of the elder girls.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But how is it that you are so quick at figures, Rodney, when you know nothing of history or geography?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Have you learned geography?”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
