mapmaker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mapmaker
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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 saw the mapmaker get tripped up by his own alleged cover story, and he ruled accordingly.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2025
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
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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