geographic

UK/d͡ʒiəˈɡɹæfɪk/US/d͡ʒiəˈɡɹæfɪk/

adjectiveB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,328 of 15,258mostly written

Geographic means to do with the earth's regions and features. Geographic distribution, a geographic region, geographic spread.

Geographic and geographical mean exactly the same, and which one is used varies by writer and by phrase rather than by rule. The National Geographic fixed the shorter form in a great many minds.

Definitions of geographic

1adjectivegeographicTo do with the earth's regions and features, in the shorter adjective form that ends in -ic.B2
“The map shows the country's main geographic features, like rivers and mountains.”

geographic is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin geographicus comes from Greek ge, earth, plus graphein, to write.

Latin
geōgraphicus
English, today
geographic

From Latin geōgraphicus; see French géographique. by surface analysis, geography + -ic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

geographic in the wild

Geographic data used for mapmaking includes imagery, scanned paper maps, surveying measurements, geographic features, and terrain data.
Map
In addition to geographic data, maps may include supplemental elements such as legends, scale bars, north arrows, or inset maps.
Map
A geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude and longitude.
Geographic coordinate system
The database contains approximately 50,000 current and former official names and spellings of towns, mountains, rivers, lakes, and other geographic places in British Columbia.
BC Geographical Names
About 50% of the names have brief notes about the history of the geographic names, and their use in history.
BC Geographical Names

1 / 2

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

← Vocabulary