geographic

«geographic» in Mova's school dictionary: To do with geography: the study of places, land, seas… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (geographic; also geographical)

meaning for a pupil

1) To do with geography: the study of places, land, seas, countries and people. tree →

2) To do with where things are on Earth. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography lessons, geographic features are mountains, rivers and coasts; a geographic map shows them. In everyday life, the magazine National Geographic is famous for nature photos. Phrases: geographic features, geographic location, the North and South geographic poles.

examples

• Mountains and rivers are geographic features. tree →
• The geographic North Pole is different from the magnetic north pole. tree →
• We studied the geographic location of our town. tree →
• National Geographic has amazing photos of animals. tree →
• Australia is a huge geographic area. tree →
• The map shows geographic regions in different colours. tree →

note

Geographic and geographical mean the same; geographical is more common in the UK. Adverb: geographically.

In the corpora

• A compass points to magnetic north, which is not exactly the same place as the geographic North Pole.

Trees and pragmatics

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