What does cartographer mean?
Word: Cartographer
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Cartographer means a person whose job is to design and draw maps.
How do you spell cartographer?
Syllables: car - tog - ra - pher
Tricky part: The f sound near the end is written with two letters, so cartografer is the usual slip.
Watch out for: cartografer, cartographor
Memory tip: A cartographer plots the land, much as you plot a graph in maths, and graph finishes with the same two letters.
Cartographer in a sentence
Example 1: A cartographer marked the new highway on the state map.
Example 2: Long ago, a cartographer might spend months on a single sea chart.
Example 3: The museum displays the tools of an eighteenth-century cartographer.
Fun Fact
The Survey of India, set up in 1767, is among the oldest map-making departments in the world. Its surveyors measured the land on foot long before anyone could look down from a satellite.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
c_rt_grapher
a) a, e
b) e, o
c) a, a
d) a, o
Show answer
d) a, o. Car gives the first vowel, and the stress then falls on the vowel of top.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The publisher hired a cartographar to redraw the old trade routes of the Indian Ocean.
a) routes
b) cartographar
c) Ocean
d) publisher
Show answer
b) cartographar. This job title ends like teacher and writer.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) surveyer
b) archaeologist
c) geologist
d) cartographer
Show answer
a) surveyer. Surveyor ends in or, as sailor and doctor do.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
phrategorcar
a) choreographer
b) photographer
c) calligrapher
d) cartographer
Show answer
d) cartographer. Only this word has three r's as well as two a's.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What would a modern cartographer rely on most?
a) satellite photographs
b) sound recordings
c) weather balloons
d) chemical samples
Show answer
a) satellite photographs
2. A cartographer visiting a new island would start by ____.
a) learning its folk songs
b) counting the birds on its shore
c) tasting the local fruit
d) recording its coastline and hills
Show answer
d) recording its coastline and hills
