GEOGRAPHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geographer mean? 

• GEOGRAPHER (noun)
  The noun GEOGRAPHER has 1 sense:

1. an expert on geography

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOGRAPHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An expert on geography

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geographer"):

cartographer; map maker (a person who makes maps)

Instance hyponyms:

Gerardus Mercator; Gerhard Kremer; Mercator (Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594))

Derivation:

geography (study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation)

 Context examples 

The whole extent of this prince’s dominions reaches about six thousand miles in length, and from three to five in breadth: whence I cannot but conclude, that our geographers of Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counterpoise the great continent of Tartary; and therefore they ought to correct their maps and charts, by joining this vast tract of land to the north-west parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)