geographer

[jee-og-ruh-fer]

noun

a person who specializes in geographical research, delineation, and study.

Origin of geographer

1535–45; < Late Latin geōgraph(us) (< Greek geōgráphos, equivalent to geō- geo- + gráphos a writer; see -graph) + -er¹

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Examples from the Web for geographer

Historical Examples of geographer

Columbus was a geographer as well as the herald of an expanding world.
Introductory American History
Henry Eldridge Bourne
Conrad Malte-Brun, a Danish author and geographer of great merit.
Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia
Various
Moses King, an American geographer of the nineteenth century.
Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia
Various
"I am unworthy of Miss Arabella," was the invariable reply of the geographer.
In Search of the Castaways
Jules Verne
Madeira is an island too well known to be of much interest now to a geographer.
In Search of the Castaways
Jules Verne

Word Origin and History for geographer

n.

1540s, from Medieval Latin geographus (see geography) + agent noun ending -er (1).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper