geographer

[ jee-og-ruh-fer ]

noun

1. a person who specializes in geographical research, delineation, and study.

Word History and Origins

Origin of geographer¹

1535–45; < Late Latin geōgraph ( us ) (< Greek geōgráphos, equivalent to geō- geo- + gráphos a writer; -graph ) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

“The megacity of the poor,” is how the urban geographer Nazrul Islam describes his hometown.

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The pioneering geographer Bernard Nietschmann once contended “more indigenous territory has been claimed by maps than by guns.”

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Lois Labrianidis, an economic geographer at the University of Macedonia, says that Greece is now facing a brain drain.

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Sanson's Atlas: a very large atlas by a French geographer in use in Swift's time.

From Project Gutenberg

Anthony Frederick Busching, a distinguished Prussian geographer, died.

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The Ravenna Geographer gives a list of towns—the names of some of which being difficult to identify.

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Maps exhibiting changes in physical geography appertain to the geologist as well as to the geographer.

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In an unmarked grave lies the body of Richard Hakluyt, the great geographer, who died in 1616.

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