mapmaker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mapmaker
Example Sentences
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He saw the mapmaker get tripped up by his own alleged cover story, and he ruled accordingly.
From Slate
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
“The sight of a total solar eclipse is stunning because the most beautiful celestial object — the sun’s corona — is hidden from us all our lives except for the precious moments of totality,” eclipse mapmaker Michael Zeiler said in an email.
From Seattle Times
But the mapmaker is still deciding which things to show and which things not to show.
From BBC
They’re increasingly calling for “decolonizing” language, moving away from terms that were imposed on them, like “Indian” — a legacy of Christopher Columbus’ infamous cartographic blunder — and even, in some contexts, “American,” which derives from a mapmaker’s effort to honor another Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci.
From Seattle Times
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