Topic: GEOGRAPHY
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abyss
alluvial
alluvium
alpine
American
Antarctica
anticyclone
archipelago
Arctic
arid
Asia
atlas
atoll
Australasia
Australasian
Australia
avalanche
axis
bank
barometer
barrier reef
basin
bay
bayou
beach
bearing
bed
bight
bluff
border(n)
border(v)
borderland
borderline
borough
box canyon
British
butte
canyon
cape
capital
cardinal point
Caribbean
cartography
cay
chain
chaparral
chart
chasm
chimney
Chinese
cirrus
CIS
cliff
climate
climatic
coastal
coastline
cockney
col
cold front
commuter belt
compass
confluence
continent
continental
continental shelf
contour
conurbation
coordinate
corridor
corrie
coterminous
council estate
country
county
county town
course
cove
crag
craggy
creek
crevasse
crevice
cumulus
cyclone
dateline
delta
desert
desert island
development
district
divide
down
dune
dust bowl
east(n)
east(a)
east(a)
eastbound
easterly(a)
easterly(n)
eastern
Easterner
easternmost
eastwards
elevation
eminence
environs
equatorial
erode
erosion
escarpment
estuary
Europe
extraterritorial
eyot
face
farmland
feeder
fiord
firth
fjord
flood plain
fluvial
frontier
frontiersman
gale force
gap
geo-
geography
geophysics
geopolitics
geyser
glacial
glaciation
glacier
globe
goldfield
gorge
grassland
Grecian
green belt
grid
grotto
groundwater
gulch
gulf
gully
head
headland
headwaters
heartland
hemisphere
highland
highlands
high water mark
hinterland
homeland
hurricane
-i
Iberian
iceberg
ice cap
ice floe
ice pack
ice sheet
inhabitant
inland(a)
inland(a)
inlet
inner city
inshore
insular
intercontinental
International Date Line
island
isle
islet
isobar
Israeli(a)
Israeli(n)
isthmus
Italian
Italianate
Italo-
Japanese
key
knoll
lagoon
lake
landlocked
landmass
landslide
landslip
lat.
Latin
Latin America
Latin American
latitude
levee
littoral
long.
longitude
longitudinal
lough
lowlands
low-lying
low water mark
magnetic north
magnetic pole
marsh
marshland
meander
Mediterranean
Mercator projection
meridian
mesa
Middle America
midtown
monsoon
moorland
morass
mountain
mountainside
mountaintop
mouth
mudslide
mull
narrows
navigation
NE
neck
nor'-
north(n)
north(a)
north(a)
northeast(n)
northeast(a)
northeasterly
northeastern
northeastwards
northerly
northern
northerner
northernmost
northwards
northwest(n)
northwest(a)
northwesterly
northwestern
northwestwards
notch
NW
NZ
oasis
occidental
ocean
onshore
openness
Ordnance Survey map
oriental
outcrop
overspill
pack ice
paddy
palisade
pan-
panhandle
parallel
peak
peninsula
Persian
physical geography
plain
plateau
point
polar
pole
political geography
pollutant
pop.
populate
population
prairie
precipice
precipitation
Prime Meridian
principality
projection
promontory
province
provincial
pueblo
R
rainfall
rain forest
rain gauge
rainstorm
range
ravine
reef
reference
region
regional
relief map
reservoir
resettle
residential
resource
ridge
rift valley
rise
river
river basin
river bed
Roman
rotation
rugged
run-off
rural
sand
sand bar
sandstorm
sandy
savanna
Scandinavian
scar
scarp
scree
scrubland
SE
seaboard
sea breeze
seafront
sea level
seaport
seaward
section
semitropical
shelf
slough
smog
snowfield
source
south(n)
south(a)
south(a)
southeast(n)
southeast(a)
southeasterly
southeastern
southeastwards
southerly
southern
southernmost
southwards
southwest(n)
southwest(a)
southwesterly
southwestern
southwestwards
speleology
spit
spur
strait
subcontinent
subtropical
suburb
suburban
summit
survey(n)
survey(v)
SW
swamp
tableland
terrain
territory
tidal
tidal wave
tidewater
time zone
top
topography
tor
tornado
town
town centre
towpath
track
tract
trade route
trail
transatlantic
transcontinental
tributary
tropic
tropical
tundra
typhoon
uncharted
up
up-country
uplands
upper
upriver
upstate
upstream
uptown
urban
urbanized
urban renewal
urban sprawl
valley
W
warm front
waste
wasteland
water
watercourse
waterfall
waterfront
waterhole
watering place
water meadow
watershed
water table
waterway
weather vane
west(n)
west(a)
West
western
Westerner
westernmost
westward
wilderness
wolds
zoning
| Date: | 1400-1500 |
| Language: | Latin |
| Origin: | geographia, from Greek, 'describing the Earth', from ge ( GEO-) + graphein 'to write' |
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ge‧og‧ra‧phy
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[uncountable]1 the study of the countries, oceans, rivers, mountains, cities etc of the world :
a geography lesson ➔ physical geography, political geography
a geography lesson2 the geography of a building, city etc is the way all its parts are arranged