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CARTOGRAPHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cartographer mean? 

CARTOGRAPHER (noun)
  The noun CARTOGRAPHER has 1 sense:

1. a person who makes mapsplay

  Familiarity information: CARTOGRAPHER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CARTOGRAPHER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who makes maps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cartographer; map maker

Hypernyms ("cartographer" is a kind of...):

geographer (an expert on geography)

Instance hyponyms:

Cabot; Sebastian Cabot (son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557))

Derivation:

cartography (the making of maps and charts)


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