different between traveller vs geography

English

Alternative forms

• traveler (American)

Etymology

From Middle English traveler, travelour, travailere, travailour (“worker", also "traveller”), equivalent to travel +? -er. Compare Anglo-Norman travailur, travailour, Old French travailleor, travelleeur, travelier.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?æv?l?/, /?t?ævl?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?æv?l?/, /?t?ævl??/

Noun

traveller (plural travellers)

1. One who travels, especially to distant lands.
2. (dated) A salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company.
3. (Britain) Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode.
4. (Ireland) Alternative letter-case form of Traveller
5. A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
6. (electrical engineering) One of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches.
7. (nautical) A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.
8. (television, theater) A rail or track for a sliding curtain.
   • 1977, New York Theatre Critics' Reviews (volumes 38-39, page 134)

     That would detract from the austerity of Rudkin's study, and a curtain on a traveler is always slid across the stage […]

9. (bridge) A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record their scores.
10. (US, Mississippi Delta) A styrofoam cup filled with liquor and usually ice, to be taken away from a place.
    • 2015: Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant

      Nowhere else in the world had I seen such gigantic measures of liquor poured, such widespread enthusiasm for Bloodies and Mimosas on weekend mornings, or such firm insistence on giving sixteen-ounce Styrofoam cups loaded with iced liquor to guests leaving a party, so they might have a "traveler" for the drive home.

      At a bar in Yazoo City, the bartender asked me if I wanted to "go tall" with my bourbon on the rocks. I didn't know what he meant, but it sounded encouraging. "Sure," I said, "Let's go tall." He filled up a pint glass with ice. Then he filled it to the brim with bourbon. When I got up to leave with about half the drink gone, he poured the rest of it into a Styrofoam cup, assuming I would want a traveler.

Translations

See also

• backpacker
• Irish Traveller
• tourist
• voyager

English

Wikiversity

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)

1. A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography; (archaic) an atlas or gazetteer.
2. The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
3. 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.

4. Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
5. (astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
6. The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (Britain, slang) a house.
7. (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?’

8. (figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
9. (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."