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

One of the leading German geographers of the era, Karl Haushofer, was a father figure to Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler.

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To Maxim Samson, a geographer, desire paths are small acts of disobedience, “a sign of defiance against inflexible design.”

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“The numbers are secondary to the performative politics of the moment,” said Austin Kocher, a geographer and research assistant professor at Syracuse University who specializes in immigration enforcement.

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Settings rarely turn up, nor do identifying attributes — a musician’s instrument, a scholar’s book, a geographer’s globe.

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The research was carried out by an international team led by Dr Angus Graham of Uppsala University in Sweden and including several archaeologists and geographers from the University of Southampton.

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