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

For researcher David Hondula, a health geographer with the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation at ASU who studies extreme heat, one solution is overdue.

From Washington Post

“This is a really welcome advance which could help fire management,” says Jessica McCarty, a geographer at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, who wasn’t involved in the study.

From Science News

Van Collinsworth is a geographer, former wildland firefighter and the director of Preserve Wild Santee.

From Voice of San Diego

Jacques Mourey, a geographer at the Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, has studied how rising temperatures have altered climbing conditions on the Mont Blanc mountain range over the past 40 years.

From Outside Online

I am a geographer, so I am used to seeing such games of academic hierarchy played above me, but I do worry when people resort to insulting their colleagues rather than admit that knowledge and circumstance have changed and reappraisal is necessary.

From No Straight News

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg