geography
IPA: dʒiˈɑgrʌfi
noun
- 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, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- (figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
- (chiefly business and marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.
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Examples of "geography" in Sentences
- But only one student found the title geography champ.
- I think learning the geography is the most daunting element of using a real city.
- I was told by a reliable source that the geography is a little wacky in the book.
- The trouble with a pure first-past-the-post system, particularly in a large geography, is that it rewards regional parties over national ones.
- As someone who has taught middle school children in geography and earth science one of the first things taught to children is the difference between weather and climate.
- A small scientific space shuttle crash lands on a planet with some mysterious properties: the stars don't move, the sun rises in the west, and the geography is an inversion of Earth's (water is land and vice versa).
- Don't worry, though, although the geography is a bit odd, the rest of Scandinavia is included much further down the list (Sweden represented by Mankell, omitting Sjowall/Wahloo, Tursten, Jungstedt, Theorin, Lackberg ... and Norway captured by Fossum, which omits Nesbo).
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