Definitions
The study of Earth's places, landforms, people, and environments.
Word origin
From Middle French géographie, from Latin geōgraphia, from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία (geōgraphía, “a description of the earth”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”).
Used in a sentence
“Some amount of basic geography is part of any good curriculum for primary and secondary education.”
“These days, instead of going off behind the bike shed during recess to learn about sex, kids need to sneak behind the bike shed to do a little bit of closeted geography or closeted Latin.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“study of earth”9 letters
02“Map-study subject”9 letters
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