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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geography/#m1)

2) The way a place is laid out: «the geography of the school». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geography/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geography/#x1)
- Geography is my favourite subject. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geography/#x2)
- In geography we learned about rivers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geography/#x3)
- She has a good knowledge of world geography. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geography/#x4)
- I'm still learning the geography of my new school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geography/#x5)
- Our geography topic is volcanoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geography/#x6)
- This is the end of the geography lesson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geography/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/62-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «geography» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geography/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.