-graphy


  1. a combining form denoting a process or form of drawing, writing, representing, recording, describing, etc., or an art or science concerned with such a process: biography; choreography; geography; orthography; photography.

Origin of -graphy

1
<Greek -graphia.See -graph, -y3

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British Dictionary definitions for -graphy

-graphy

n combining form
  1. indicating a form or process of writing, representing, etc: calligraphy; photography

  2. indicating an art or descriptive science: choreography; oceanography

Origin of -graphy

1
via Latin from Greek -graphia, from graphein to write

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