surveyor

noun

sur·vey·or sər-ˈvā-ər

: one that surveys

especially : one whose occupation is surveying land

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All the while chain curtains evoke the surveyor tools Banneker would have used to map out the city. —

Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2024 Thoreau worked as a surveyor after the book’s publication, and his surveying map of the Concord River, displayed alongside his walking stick and the Walden manuscript, shows that his observations of nature were practical as well as poetic. —

Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024 After high school, Tucker worked as a surveyor on the Queensgate railroad before joining his parents at Tucker’s. —

Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024 Opening on September 9, the same date that Washington, DC was formally named in 1791, the 200-seat restaurant pays homage to Benjamin Banneker, a renowned astronomer and land surveyor, and his ancestral ties to the Dōgon tribe of Mali. —

Taryn White, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for surveyor