GEOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geography mean? 

• GEOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun GEOGRAPHY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GEOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

geographics; geography

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 

"Because the seaway changed in size and geography frequently, it may have resulted in ‘islands of water’ that stimulated species gigantism."

(Ancient Saharan seaway illustrates how Earth’s climate and creatures can undergo extreme change, National Science Foundation)

The substance of shared element varies widely, from geography to a situation to interest to lives and values.

(Community, NCI Thesaurus)

Of or relating to the science of geography; determined by geography.

(Geographic, NCI Thesaurus)

Among the lessons that Felix had bestowed upon Safie, geography had not been omitted; I had learned from these the relative situations of the different countries of the earth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Well, I don’t see that your geography is much better than your history,” said he.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We have spent two long days in exploration, said he, and we are no wiser as to the actual geography of the place than when we started.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Perhaps it is a grammar, perhaps a history, or geography.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They collected 2,500 meters (8,202 feet) of sediment cores from layers that record how the geography, volcanism and climate of Zealandia have changed over the last 70 million years.

(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)

These could already read, write, and sew; and to them I taught the elements of grammar, geography, history, and the finer kinds of needlework.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)