geographer

«geographer» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who studies geography: the Earth's land, seas… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a geographer, geographers)

meaning for a pupil

A geographer is a person who studies geography: the Earth's land, seas, weather, places and the people who live there. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography lessons pupils work like young geographers: reading maps, doing fieldwork, measuring rivers and weather, and asking how places change. Phrases: «a famous geographer», «work like a geographer».

examples

• A geographer studies maps, rivers and mountains. tree →
• Geographers ask why people live where they do. tree →
• Be a geographer and draw a map of your school. tree →
• The geographer measured how fast the river flowed. tree →
• Geographers study climate and weather. tree →
• She wants to be a geographer and travel the world. tree →
• Old geographers drew maps with sea monsters on them. tree →

note

Countable. Related: «geography», «geographical». Stress: «jee-OG-ruh-fer». A geologist studies rocks; a geographer studies places and the Earth's surface.

In the corpora

• Nobody in 1300 called it the Silk Road: a German geographer, Ferdinand von Richthofen, invented the name in 1877.
• The name "Silk Road" was invented by a German geographer, Ferdinand von Richthofen, in 1877.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «geographer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.