Geography
[dʒɪ'ɒgrəfɪ] or [dʒɪ'ɑɡrəfi]
Definition
(noun.) study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation.
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Definition
(n.) The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.
(n.) A treatise on this science.
Editor: Randolph
Definition
n. the science which describes the surface of the earth and its inhabitants: a book containing a description of the earth.—n. Geog′rapher.—adjs. Geograph′ic -al relating to geography.—adv. Geograph′ically.—Geographical distribution (see Distribution).—Descriptive geography that part of geography which consists in a statement of facts; Historical geography that part of geography which investigates the changes which have occurred in the governmental control of territory; Physical geography (see Physical); Political geography geography that gives an account of the different communities of mankind.
Checker: Sumner
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of studying geography, denotes that you will travel much and visit places of renown. See Atlas.
Checked by Dora
Examples
- A more authentic tradition, aided by the geography of the country, places the pit in Dothan, some two days' journey from here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I thought I was rather good at geography, but I never heard of the Island of Melnos before. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The science and description of the world on which we live are called respectively Geology and Geography. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She can talk French, I suppose, and do geography, and globes, and needlework, and everything? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Was there not the geography of Asia Minor, in which her slackness had often been rebuked by Mr. Casaubon? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They had no knowledge of geography beyond the range of the Mediterranean basin and the frontiers of Persia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The classic definition of geography as an account of the earth as the home of man expresses the educational reality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Geography, as often taught, illustrates the former; mathematics, beyond the rudiments of figuring, the latter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- History is one such group of facts; algebra another; geography another, and so on till we have run through the entire curriculum. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But both in the matter of our time charts and the three maps we have given of prehistoric geography there is necessarily much speculative matter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Tarzan rose, and, going to one of the cupboards, returned with a well-thumbed geography. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Geography and history are the two great school resources for bringing about the enlargement of the significance of a direct personal experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In one field of knowledge particularly we might have expected the Romans to have been alert and enterprising, and that was geography. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Geography, of course, has its educative influence in a counterpart connection of natural facts with social events and their consequences. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Geography is a topic that originally appeals to imagination--even to the romantic imagination. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Editor: Lucius