mapmaker

[ map-mey-ker ]
/ ˈmæpˌmeɪ kər /
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noun

a person who makes maps; cartographer.

Origin of mapmaker

First recorded in 1765–75; map + maker

Words nearby mapmaker

maple sugar, maple syrup, maple syrup urine disease, maple-leaved viburnum, maplewood, mapmaker, mappah, mapping, mapping function, mapplethorpe, maputo

Words related to mapmaker

surveyor, mapper, topographer

Example sentences from the Web for mapmaker

  • He knew it better than anyone else, certainly better than any mapmaker.

    Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas |Raphael Aloysius Lafferty

  • The vast tortuous landscape spread out below him like a relief map in a mapmaker's nightmare.

    A World Called Crimson |Darius John Granger

  • He ran his finger over the angular shapes the mapmaker had drawn around Benevento.

    The Saracen: The Holy War |Robert Shea

  • He is a mapmaker, the companion whisperingly replied, and hes got an immense stock of old maps on hand.

    Anecdotes of the Great War |Carleton Britton Case