ethnography

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: eth=nog=ra=phy

CIDE DICTIONARY

ethnography, n. [Gr. nation + -graphy: cf. F. ethnographie.].

 That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ethnography, n. the scientific description of races and cultures of mankind.

Derivative

ethnographer n. ethnographic adj. ethnographical adj.

ROGET THESAURUS

ethnography

Mankind

N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.