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cartographer

[kahr-tog-ruh-fer]
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noun

a person engaged in cartography, or the production of maps.

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assessor, measurer, mapmaker, topographer
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  • It was Puget Sound, said Tom, the cartographer of the occasion.

    Gulf and Glacier

    Willis Boyd Allen

  • This is no doubt conjecture on the part of the cartographer.

    The Iowa

    William Harvey Miner

  • As mariner and cartographer to him it was a cape, and nothing more.

    Old Plymouth Trails

    Winthrop Packard

  • The form “brazil” may have arisen through the cartographer connecting the name with the valuable brazil-wood, used for dyeing.

  • We may consequently suppose that the cartographer availed himself of the sources then at his disposal.