geography

«geography» in Mova's school dictionary: The school subject about the Earth: places, countries… — 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

noun (geography)

meaning for a pupil

1) The school subject about the Earth: places, countries, land, weather, rivers, people and how they live. tree →

2) The way a place is laid out: «the geography of the school». tree →

sense in the lessons

At school, geography lessons cover maps, continents, climates, rivers, mountains and cities. Physical geography is about land and weather; human geography is about people, towns and jobs. In everyday talk: «I don't know the geography of this town» = where things are.

examples

• We drew a map in geography today. tree →
• Geography is my favourite subject. tree →
• In geography we learned about rivers. tree →
• She has a good knowledge of world geography. tree →
• I'm still learning the geography of my new school. tree →
• Our geography topic is volcanoes. tree →
• This is the end of the geography lesson. tree →

note

Uncountable. Abbreviation: geog. Spelling: geo- (earth) + -graphy (writing). Person: geographer.

In the corpora

• So a story about a river bank can also be a geography lesson about the whole of Europe.

Trees and pragmatics

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