English Dictionary

geography

/dʒɪˈɒɡɹəfi/

noun

A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography; (archaic) an atlas or gazetteer.

Geography is the study of the Earth's physical features, climate, and human populations.

意味（1）

A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography; (archaic) an atlas or gazetteer.

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.

意味（2）

The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.

意味（3）

Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.

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.

意味（4）

Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.

意味（5）

(astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.

意味（6）

The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.

意味（7）

(chiefly upper-class UK, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

The Business Man Jocular: ‘I say, where's the geography, old son?’

意味（8）

(figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.

意味（9）

(chiefly business and marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.