Other forms: geographies
Geography is the study of countries, landscapes, rivers and maps. Study geography, a geography lesson, the geography of the region.
It divides into physical geography, about landforms, rivers and climate, and human geography, about people, cities and economies — and much of the interesting work is where the two meet. The geography of a place means its physical shape and layout: the geography of the coastline. Note geographical, the adjective; geographer; and that geography as a school subject in Britain includes fieldwork, which is most of what anybody remembers of it.
1noungeographyThe study of countries, landscapes and maps.
“She taught geography for about thirty years.”
2nounphysicalThe physical layout of a place.
“The geography of the valley decided where every road went.”
geography is a field of study.
Greek geographia is ge, the earth, plus graphein, to write — writing about the earth. The same ge gives geology and geometry, which is earth-measuring, and the same graphein gives every -graphy in the language.
Latin
geōgraphia
Middle French
géographie
English, today
geography
Built from
From Middle French géographie, from Latin geōgraphia. From Middle French géographie, from Latin geōgraphia, from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία (“a description of the earth”), from γῆ (“earth”) + γράφω (“write”). a doublet of geographia. Use in reference to lavatories derives from the mid-20th century euphemism "show one the geography of the house" in reference to pointing out the toilets.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA