Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun etc. See chartographer, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who makes charts or maps.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who makes maps or charts.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who makes maps

Etymologies

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cartography +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Quigley had helped Violet and Klaus reach the top of Mount Fraught in order to find the V.F.D. headquarters and rescue Sunny from Count Olaf’s clutches, but another tributary of the Stricken Stream had carried him off in the opposite direction, and the cartographera word which here means "someone who is very good with maps, and of whom Violet Baudelaire was particularly fond" didn’t even have a toboggan to keep him out of the chilly water. next »

    Excerpt: The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket 2004

  • Seth Lerer, 'cartographer' of children's literature

    Fore, right! 2009

  • Seth Lerer, 'cartographer' of children's literature

    Fore, right! 2009

  • I don't know the whole story but I THINK that he was a cartographer just as America got named that due to an error by an Italian cartographer, Amerigo Vespucci.

    Estadounidense? 2009

  • I don't know the whole story but I THINK that he was a cartographer just as America got named that due to an error by an Italian cartographer, Amerigo Vespucci.

    Estadounidense? 2009

  • I don't know the whole story but I THINK that he was a cartographer just as America got named that due to an error by an Italian cartographer, Amerigo Vespucci.

    Estadounidense? 2009

  • I don't know the whole story but I THINK that he was a cartographer just as America got named that due to an error by an Italian cartographer, Amerigo Vespucci.

    Estadounidense? 2009

  • I don't know the whole story but I THINK that he was a cartographer just as America got named that due to an error by an Italian cartographer, Amerigo Vespucci.

    Estadounidense? 2009

  • In what voice am I to embody the person who wrote that first volume with little thought of publisher or readership during a cryptic, enisled time, I who live nearer the main and have had public definitions attached to me, including some I would like to shake off — environmentalist, cartographer — and whose readers will open this volume looking for more of the same and will be disappointed if they get it?

    Commonplace 2010

  • In what voice am I to embody the person who wrote that first volume with little thought of publisher or readership during a cryptic, enisled time, I who live nearer the main and have had public definitions attached to me, including some I would like to shake off — environmentalist, cartographer — and whose readers will open this volume looking for more of the same and will be disappointed if they get it?

    A Different Stripe: 2009

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  • Guildenstern: What a shambles! We're just not getting anywhere.

    Rosencrantz: Not even England. I don't believe in it anyway.

    Guildenstern: What?

    Rosencrantz: England.

    Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean?

    February 3, 2007