geographer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of geographer
1535–45; < Late Latin geōgraph ( us ) (< Greek geōgráphos, equivalent to geō- geo- + gráphos a writer; -graph ) + -er 1
Example Sentences
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Brown uses mapping software and consults academic geographers to determine precisely where the land ends and ocean begins, and confirm the coordinates within one meter.
Mr. Robb’s attunement makes him a master geographer of the oldest and newest forms of life on a “sodden, self-aggrandizing island outpost.”
One of the leading German geographers of the era, Karl Haushofer, was a father figure to Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler.
To Maxim Samson, a geographer, desire paths are small acts of disobedience, “a sign of defiance against inflexible design.”
Settings rarely turn up, nor do identifying attributes — a musician’s instrument, a scholar’s book, a geographer’s globe.
From Los Angeles Times
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