Origin and history of geography

1890, originally in geography, "a region behind and inland from a port city that is closely tied to it economically," from...Chisholm, in "Handbook of Commercial Geography," translated the German word as hinderland, supposedly first in his 1888 edition...

America, although much cultivated latterly in Germany and France, being considered an indispensable auxiliary to history and geography...

"inhabitants of torrid zones," in ancient geography, 1620s, from Medieval Latin Amphiscii, from Greek amphiskioi "inhabitants...

In physical geography, "the form of the surface of any part of the earth" (by 1842), especially in relief map....

The dimensions of the habitable world then (and ancient geography embraced only the home of man ....,) were much greater,...These Latin terms are retained in the modern geography of most European nations, but with a modified meaning....

Especially in geography, originally American English, in reference to a long, narrow strip projecting from a state or territory...

To the extent that the phrase has been applied, awkwardly, to global geography, they would be the Arctic, Antarctic, North...

c. 1300, "custom, habit," in phrase bi rote "by heart," a word of unknown origin, sometimes said to be connected with Old French rote "route" (see route (n.)), or from Latin rota "wheel" (see rotary), but OED calls both suggestions groundless. Meaning "a fixed or unchanging round

1640s, from Late Latin inimicalis "hostile," from Latin inimicus "unfriendly; an enemy" (see enemy). Inimical expresses both feeling and action, generally in private affairs. Hostile also expresses both feeling and action, but applies especially to public affairs: where it appli

early 13c., chargen, "to load, put a burden on or in; fill with something to be retained," from Old French chargier "to load, burden, weigh down," from Late Latin carricare "to load a wagon or cart," from Latin carrus "two-wheeled wagon" (see car). The senses of "entrust," "comma