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countable and uncountable, plural geographies
A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography quotations examples
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.
2021, Mark Steyn, “Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization”, in Imprimis, volume 50, number 4/5, Hillsdale College, page 3
(archaic) an atlas or gazetteer.
The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them. examples
Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth. quotations examples
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.
1973, Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization
Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution. examples
(astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets. examples
(UK, slang) a house.
(chiefly upper-class UK, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation. quotations examples
The Business Man Jocular: ‘I say, where's the geography, old son?’
1967 December 21, The Listener, page 802
(figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything. examples
(chiefly business and marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector. examples