n.
Pronunciation: käz- ' mä-gr ə -f ē
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -phies
Etymology: Middle English cosmographie, from Late Latin cosmographia, from Greek kosmographia, from kosmos + -graphia -graphy
Date: 14th century
1 : a general description of the world or of the universe
2 : the science that deals with the constitution of the whole order of nature
– cos · mog · ra · pher \ -f ə r \ noun
– cos · mo · graph · ic \ ˌ käz-m ə - ' gra-fik \ or cos · mo · graph · i · cal \ -fi-k ə l \ adjective