单词 | geographer |
释义 | geographern. An expert or specialist in geography. Also figurative.Frequently as the second element in compounds, as dialect, linguistic, plant geographer, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > geographer > [noun] geographer1534 geographus1547 1534 W. Marshall tr. Erasmus Playne & Godly Expos. Commune Crede f. 115v And it may be so, that in the world there are some landes..which are not yet found of maryners or geographers: in which for all that the Christen faythe is stronge & quycke. 1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes 203 There wer also other tounes mo then one or twain of the same name elswhere, as testifien the Geographiers. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 21 The Geographers name them Antipodes. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 106 I come forth..to have a single bout with the ignorant malice of an imperious and abortive Geographer. 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iii. 35 I am not so ill a Geographer. 1733 J. Swift On Poetry 12 Geographers in Afric-Maps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps. 1784 in J. Cook & J. King Voy. Pacific I. i. ii. 20 The Pic of Teneriffe, one of the most noted points of land with Geographers. 1838 F. Haywood tr. I. Kant Critick Pure Reason 572 The celebrated David Hume was one of these geographers of human reason, who fancied to have disposed of all such questions sufficiently in this way. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 1 The general comprehensive term ‘Spain’, which is convenient for geographers and politicians, is calculated to mislead the traveller. 1902 Edinb. Rev. July 88 Later geographers..confounded Odusseia in the Sierra Nevada with the Lusitanian Olysippo. 1985 P. Gray Freud for Historians (1986) ii. 76 It is..the apparent illogic of psychoanalytic observations..that have made Freud into the supreme geographer of the human mind. 2007 Church Times 30 Mar. 11/1 We met in the shadow of Durham Cathedral: theologians, geographers, urbanists, town-planners, clerics, journalists, and architects. Compounds geographer general n. North American (now historical) a post carrying overall responsibility for geographic and cartographic matters in a country or region.Cf. general adj. 8a. ΚΠ 1785 Boston Mag. Dec. 474/1 They would not permit the Geographer-General, and the Assistant Surveyors of the United States, to enter upon the execution of their business, which occasions their return. 1834 Obituary 22 Nov. in Institution Soc. Cincinnati (1851) 102 In the year 1778, Col. De Witt was appointed Geographer-General to the army, in the place of Col. Erskine. 1908 Bull. Univ. Wisconsin No. 352. 92 The officer in charge of surveys was to be the surveyor-general (replacing the former geographer-general), with a corps of deputy surveyors. 2006 J. Hamblin & D. Finch Diva & Rancher ii. 39 Once back at the ranch, he wrote to the geographer general in Ottawa, describing the terrain of this part of the west that to date was unmapped. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1534 |
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