"geogony" meaning in English

See geogony in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: geogonies [plural]
Etymology: From geo- + -gony. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|geo|gony}} geo- + -gony Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} geogony (countable and uncountable, plural geogonies)
  1. (obsolete, uncountable) The branch of science dealing with the formation of the Earth. Tags: obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-geogony-en-noun-wPGUxhyZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with geo-, English terms suffixed with -gony, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with geo-: 73 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -gony: 78 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 92 8
  2. (obsolete, countable) A particular account of the formation of the Earth. Tags: countable, obsolete
    Sense id: en-geogony-en-noun-Kio2MsJJ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: geogonic

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "geogonic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "geo",
        "3": "gony"
      },
      "expansion": "geo- + -gony",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From geo- + -gony.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "geogonies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "geogony (countable and uncountable, plural geogonies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "73 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with geo-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -gony",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1847, Edward Hitchcock, Elementary Geology:",
          "text": "Some writers divide Geology into two branches; 1. Geognosy, or Positive Geology, which embraces only the known facts of the science. 2. Geogony, or Speculative Geology, which attempts to point out the causes of those facts, and the inferences that result from them.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The branch of science dealing with the formation of the Earth."
      ],
      "id": "en-geogony-en-noun-wPGUxhyZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "science",
          "science"
        ],
        [
          "formation",
          "formation"
        ],
        [
          "Earth",
          "Earth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, uncountable) The branch of science dealing with the formation of the Earth."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, John Muehleisen Arnold, Genesis and Science; Or The First Leaves of the Bible:",
          "text": "The whole system of modern geology is a reproduction of Brahminical geogonies and Maha Pralayas, or great floods.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A particular account of the formation of the Earth."
      ],
      "id": "en-geogony-en-noun-Kio2MsJJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "formation",
          "formation#English"
        ],
        [
          "Earth",
          "Earth#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, countable) A particular account of the formation of the Earth."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "geogony"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with geo-",
    "English terms suffixed with -gony",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "geogonic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "geo",
        "3": "gony"
      },
      "expansion": "geo- + -gony",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From geo- + -gony.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "geogonies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "geogony (countable and uncountable, plural geogonies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1847, Edward Hitchcock, Elementary Geology:",
          "text": "Some writers divide Geology into two branches; 1. Geognosy, or Positive Geology, which embraces only the known facts of the science. 2. Geogony, or Speculative Geology, which attempts to point out the causes of those facts, and the inferences that result from them.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The branch of science dealing with the formation of the Earth."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "science",
          "science"
        ],
        [
          "formation",
          "formation"
        ],
        [
          "Earth",
          "Earth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, uncountable) The branch of science dealing with the formation of the Earth."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, John Muehleisen Arnold, Genesis and Science; Or The First Leaves of the Bible:",
          "text": "The whole system of modern geology is a reproduction of Brahminical geogonies and Maha Pralayas, or great floods.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A particular account of the formation of the Earth."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "formation",
          "formation#English"
        ],
        [
          "Earth",
          "Earth#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, countable) A particular account of the formation of the Earth."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "geogony"
}

Download raw JSONL data for geogony meaning in English (2.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.