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topographie

topographie is the obsolete spelling of topography.

Meaning of topography

Noun

topography (countable and uncountable, plural topographies)

  1. A precise description of a place.
  2. A detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object.
  3. The features themselves.
  4. The surveying of the features.
  5. (broadly) A figurative landscape; a structure of interrelated ideas, etc.
    • With good humor if predictably, the emotional topography of the faire facilitates a kind of liberation from both the closet and the cruelty of high school cliquedom.2014, Rachel Lee Rubin, Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture, page 283

Forms of topographie

pluraltopographies

Questions about topographie

What is topographie the obsolete spelling of?
Topographie is the obsolete spelling of topography.

Words near topographie in the dictionary

  1. topographical map
  2. topographical maps
  3. topographically
  4. topographicity
  5. topographics
  6. topographie
  7. topographies
  8. topographist
  9. topographists
  10. topographize
  11. topographized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: topographie (page history and authors); topography (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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