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  • noun a person who can read maps

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Examples

  • She was the map-reader, armed with a library of travel guides, phrase books and newspaper cuttings, constantly on the lookout for a new hotel or restaurant to add to her itinerary.

    I'm not angry with Edith any more 2011

  • My admiration is unbounded for any woman so prepared to acknowledge that she makes a naturally crappy map-reader / navigator that she is willing to be scared for life in the greater cause of not sending me down the wrong road.

    "It held me like two angels' hands." Ann Althouse 2007

  • And here I had the pleasure of driving one first in town with a map-reader who I later discovered inconsistently confuses right and left, then on several-file roads my nightmare to crown the virgin trip with narrow, winding mountain roads.

    Boiling Mud Torill 2006

  • And here I had the pleasure of driving one first in town with a map-reader who I later discovered inconsistently confuses right and left, then on several-file roads my nightmare to crown the virgin trip with narrow, winding mountain roads.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Torill 2006

  • To make one false turn, or to turn without noticing the fact, by night threw the best map-reader or scout off his path and bewildered his calculations.

    The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

  • Eight out of ten (79 per cent) admit to having regular conversations with their electronic map-reader and almost a third of drivers (32 per cent) have got into an argument because of their devices.

    Entertainment - Female First 2009

  • Eight out of ten (79 per cent) admit to having regular conversations with their electronic map-reader and almost a third of drivers (32 per cent) have got into an argument because of their devices.

    Entertainment - Female First 2009

  • Eight out of ten (79 per cent) admit to having regular conversations with their electronic map-reader and almost a third of drivers (32 per cent) have got into an argument because of their devices.

    Entertainment - Female First 2009

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