Word Meanings - CHOROGRAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

the mapping or description of a region or district. The chorography of their provinces. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to CHOROGRAPHY)

• MAPPERY
  The making, or study, of maps. Shak.
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• DESCRIPTION
  1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. 2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions
• DISTRICTION
  Sudden display; flash; glitter. A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.
• REGIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
• DISTRICTLY
  Strictly. Foxe.
• REGION
  1. One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• CHOROGRAPHY
  the mapping or description of a region or district. The chorography of their provinces. Sir T. Browne.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
  A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night.
• APHOTIC REGION
  A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate.
• TRANSREGIONATE
  Foreign. Holinshed.