Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

geographic

/d͡ʒiəˈɡɹæfɪk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.97 in modern English

Syllables: geo-graph-ic
IPA: /d͡ʒiəˈɡɹæfɪk/

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to geography (or to geographics).

adj

Determined by geography, as opposed to magnetic (i.e. North)

Example Sentences

"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."
"The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: geōgraphicus

Inflected Forms

more geographic (comparative) most geographic (superlative) geographick (alternative)

Derived Forms

anthropogeographic biogeographic chronogeographic cytogeographic ecogeographic ethnogeographic genographic hydrogeographic ichthyogeographic macrogeographic microgeographic morphogeographic

Phrases

geographic atrophy geographic bachelor geographic information science geographic information system geographic latitude geographic mile geographic north geographic North Pole

Frequently Paired Words

geographer geographical geographically geography

Synonyms

geographical

Rhymes With

traffic graphic demographic photographic pornographic infographic holographic topographic ethnographic stratigraphic oceanographic hydrographic

Questions

How do you pronounce geographic?: The recorded pronunciation is /d͡ʒiəˈɡɹæfɪk/.
What does geographic mean?: Pertaining to geography (or to geographics).
Where does geographic come from?: It is traced to Latin.

How to pronounce geographic

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