geographer

English

Etymology

From geo- +‎ -grapher.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiːˈɒɡ.ɹə.fə(ɹ)/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiːˈɔɡ.ɹə.fə(ɹ)/

  • Audio (Brisbane):

    (file)

Noun

geographer (plural geographers)

1. A specialist in geography.
   • 2016 September 8, Noel Castree, “Has humans’ impact brought about a new era for the Earth?”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Alternatively, geographers Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin have suggested that 1610 might be a better candidate for a crucial human-induced step change.

   • 2024 September 14, Katie Hunt, “New evidence upends contentious Easter Island theory, scientists say”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Some experts, such as geographer Jared Diamond in his 2005 book, “Collapse,” used Easter Island as a cautionary tale of how the exploitation of limited resources can result in catastrophic population decline, ecological devastation and the destruction of a society through infighting.

Derived terms

• anthropogeographer
• biogeographer
• ethnogeographer
• hydrogeographer
• nongeographer
• ornithogeographer
• palaeogeographer
• phylogeographer
• phytogeographer
• psychogeographer
• zoogeographer

Translations

a specialist in geography

• Afrikaans: geograaf
• Albanian: gjeográf (sq) m, gjeográfi (sq) m
• Arabic: جُغْرَافِيّ m (juḡrāfiyy), جُغْرَافِيَّة (ar) f (juḡrāfiyya)
• Armenian: աշխարհագրագետ (hy) (ašxarhagraget)
• Aromanian: gheográf m, gheográfu m; gheográfã f, gheográfa f
• Asturian: xeógrafu m
• Azerbaijani: coğrafiyaşünas
• Basque: geografo
• Belarusian: гео́граф m (hjeóhraf)
• Bengali: ভূগোলবিদ (bhugōlbid)
• Bulgarian: геогра́ф m (geográf), геогра́фка f (geográfka)
• Catalan: geògraf m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地理學家 / 地理学家 (zh) (dìlǐxuéjiā)

• Czech: geograf m, zeměpisec (cs) m
• Danish: geograf (da) c
• Dutch: geograaf (nl) m, geografe (nl) f, aardrijkskundige (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: (♂♀) geografo (eo), (♀) geografino
• Estonian: geograaf
• Finnish: maantieteilijä (fi)
• French: géographe (fr) m or f
• Galician: xeógrafo m, xeógrafa f
• Georgian: გეოგრაფი (geograpi)
• German: Geograf (de) m, Geografin f, Geograph (de) m, Geographin f
• Greek: γεωγράφος (el) m (geográfos)

  Ancient: γεωγράφος m (geōgráphos)

• Hebrew: גיאוגרף m (gyeagraf), גֵּאוֹגְרָף (he) m (geagraf)
• Hindi: भूगोलवेत्ता m (bhūgolvettā)
• Hungarian: földrajztudós (hu), geográfus (hu)
• Icelandic: landfræðingur m
• Ido: geografo (io)
• Indonesian: ahli geografi
• Irish: tíreolaí m, geografaí m
• Italian: geografo (it) m, geografa f
• Japanese: 地理学者 (ja) (ちりがくしゃ, chirigakusha)
• Kazakh: географ (geograf)
• Khmer: ភូមិសាស្ត្រិន (phuumisaahstrən), អ្នកភូមិសាស្ត្រ (nĕək phuumisaah)
• Korean: 지리학자 (jirihakja)
• Kyrgyz: географ (ky) (geograf)
• Lao: ນັກພູມີສາດ (nak phū mī sāt)
• Latvian: ģeogrāfs m, ģeogrāfe f
• Lithuanian: geografas m, geografė f
• Macedonian: географ m (geograf)
• Malay: geografi (ms)
• Maori: kaimātai matawhenua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: geograf m

  Nynorsk: geograf m

• Occitan: geograf (oc) m, geografe (oc) m
• Persian: جغرافیادان (joġrâfiyâdân)
• Polish: geograf (pl) m, geografka (pl) f
• Portuguese: geógrafo (pt) m, geógrafa f
• Romanian: geograf (ro) m, geografă (ro) f
• Russian: гео́граф (ru) m (geógraf)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: географ m

  Roman: geograf (sh) m

• Slovak: geograf m
• Slovene: geograf (sl) m, geografinja f
• Spanish: geógrafo (es) m, geógrafa (es) f
• Swahili: mwanajiografia
• Swedish: geograf (sv) c
• Tagalog: heograpo
• Tajik: географ (tg) (geograf), ҷуғрофидон (juġrofidon)
• Thai: นักภูมิศาสตร์ (nák-puu-mí-sàat)
• Turkish: coğrafyacı (tr)
• Turkmen: geograf
• Ukrainian: гео́граф m (heóhraf)
• Urdu: جغرافیہ دان m (juġrāfiya dān)
• Uzbek: geograf (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhà địa lý
• Volapük: (♂♀) taledavan (vo), (♂) hitaledavan, (♀) jitaledavan
• Welsh: daearyddwr (cy) m
• Yiddish: געאָגראַף m (geograf)
• Zazaki: coğrafyar, dormewan, çorşmeger