Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - geography

 noun  (plural -phies)  Etymology: Latin geographia, from Greek geographia, from geographein to describe the earth's surface, from geo- + graphein to write — more at carve  Date: 15th century  1. a science that deals with the description, distribution, and interaction of the diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth's surface  2. the geographic features of an area  3. a treatise on ~  4.  a. a delineation or systematic arrangement of constituent elements ; configuration the philosophers…have tried to construct geographies of human reason — Times Literary Supplement  b. makeup 1 her emotional ~