mapmaker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mapmaker
Example Sentences
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In Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, an Irish mapmaker and his family endure poverty and take strength from a connection to the mystic past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
More of that later, but we're with her to talk about Land, her sweeping new tale centred around the story of an Irish mapmaker working for the British army in the mid-19th Century.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
He was known as a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, mapmaker, student of nature and doubtless a dozen other things we’ll learn in the course of this documentary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
Google started off as a kind of mapmaker for the internet, but through its phenomenal success gradually became the architect of the World Wide Web.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2023
And until I turned nine and turned to video games, that was what I wanted to be when I grew up: a mapmaker.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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