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geographer

[ jee-og-ruh-fer ]

noun

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


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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
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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.

“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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Anthony Frederick Busching, a distinguished Prussian geographer, died.

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

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

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

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