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geography
English
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Etymology
From Middle French géographie, from Latin ge?graphia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (ge?graphía, “a description of the earth”), from ?? (gê, “earth”) + ????? (gráph?, “write”).
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.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d???????fi/, /?d?????fi/
- (US) IPA(key): /d?i?????fi/
- Rhymes: -????fi
- Hyphenation: ge?og?ra?phy
Noun
geography (countable and uncountable, plural geographies)
- 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.
- 1973, Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization
- The geography of the Andes approaches never made transportation easy; routes to Bogota, Quito, La Paz, and Cuzco were so precipitous as to slow down the development of those Spanish cities in the interior.
- 1973, Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization
- 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 (Britain, slang) a house.
- (chiefly upper-class Britain, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- 1967 December 21, The Listener, p. 802:
- The Business Man Jocular: ‘I say, where's the geography, old son?’
- 1967 December 21, The Listener, p. 802:
- (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.
Synonyms
- (upper-class British slang for lavatory): loo; see also Thesaurus:bathroom
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- geography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- Oxford English Dictionary. "geography, n."
geography From the web:
- what geography mean
- what geography study
- what geography ought to be
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chorography
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (khôros, “place”) +? -graphy.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -????fi
Noun
chorography (countable and uncountable, plural chorographies)
- The study of provinces, regions, cities, etc., as opposed to larger-scale geography.
Translations
chorography From the web:
- what choreography means
- what choreography do
- what does choreography mean
- dance choreography
- what does choreography mean in greek
- what does choreography mean in english
- what is choreography
- what mean chorography
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