English Dictionary

geography

IPA（発音記号）

/dʒɪˈɒɡɹəfi/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 婉語 比喩的用法

A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography; (archaic) an atlas or gazetteer.

日本語の意味

地球や大地の状況の記述、またはその解説書（地理学の論文や教科書として）。 / （古語）地図帳や地名辞書。

Her favorite book in the library was an old geography that described the continents and climates of the earth in meticulous detail.

彼女が図書館で一番好きだった本は、古い地理学の教科書で、世界の大陸や気候が綿密に記述されていた。

意味（1）

A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography; (archaic) an atlas or gazetteer.

These days, instead of going off behind the bike shed during recess to learn about sex, kids need to sneak behind the bike shed to do a little bit of closeted geography or closeted Latin.

意味（2）

The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.

意味（3）

Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.

The geography of the Andes approaches never made transportation easy; routes to Bogota, Quito, La Paz, and Cuzco were so precipitous as to slow down the development of those Spanish cities in the interior.

意味（4）

Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.

意味（5）

(astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.

意味（6）

The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.

意味（7）

(chiefly upper-class UK, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

The Business Man Jocular: ‘I say, where's the geography, old son?’

意味（8）

(figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.

意味（9）

(chiefly business and marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.

geographies （ plural ）