topographer

noun

to·​pog·​ra·​pher tə-ˈpä-grə-fər 

: a specialist in topography

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

Eva, a young student, Héctor, a topographer who drives a Google Street View Car, and Saturio, a farmer, get involved in a series of mysterious disparitions that have taken place in the same region of Soria, Spain, at different times. —John Hopewell, Variety, 29 July 2022

Valleys for topographers and whaling ships, a glacier for a shipmaster’s wife, and a fjord for a Dutch whaling skipper. —Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1603, in the meaning defined above