Geographic

//d͡ʒiəˈɡɹæfɪk// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to geography (or to geographics).

    "In his book, Polystate: A Thought Experiment in Distributed Government, Zach Weinersmith speculates about what governments would look like if they didn’t rule over geographic locations, but instead ruled over minds."

  2. 2
    Determined by geography, as opposed to magnetic (i.e. North)
Adjective
  1. 1
    determined by geography wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to the science of geography wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
arealcartographicchorographicgeodesicgeodeticgeographical

Example

More examples

"The first naked woman I saw was in a National Geographic magazine."

Etymology

From Latin geōgraphicus; see French géographique. By surface analysis, geography + -ic.

Related phrases

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