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ge⋅og⋅ra⋅phy

[jee-og-ruh-fee]
–noun, plural -phies.
1. the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
2. the study of this science.
3. the topographical features of a region, usually of the earth, sometimes of the planets.
4. a book dealing with this science or study, as a textbook.
5. the arrangement of features of any complex entity: the geography of the mind.

Origin:
1535–45; < L geōgraphia < Gk geōgraphía earth description. See geo-, -graphy
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ge·og·ra·phy   (jē-ŏg'rə-fē)   
n.   pl. ge·og·ra·phies
  1. The study of the earth and its features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including human life and the effects of human activity.

  2. The physical characteristics, especially the surface features, of an area.

  3. A book on geography.

  4. An ordered arrangement of constituent elements: charting a geography of the mind.


[Latin geōgraphia, from Greek geōgraphiā : geō-, geo- + -graphiā, -graphy.]
ge·og'ra·pher n.
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geography 
1542, from Fr., from L., from Gk. geographia "description of the earth's surface," from ge "earth" + -graphia "description," from graphein "write."
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