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galactographer

galactographer noun: a specialist in galactography.

Noun

galactographer (plural galactographers)

  1. A specialist in galactography.
    • Early galactographers had defined it as that part of the galaxy which lay between the eastern and southern kingdoms, and the edge of the island-universe.1965 April, Edmond Hamilton, “The Shores of Infinity”, in Amazing Stories, volume 39, number 4, page 24
    • It seems like these 'cats might be left over from wetter days. I found a brief study of Rhyl done by a couple galactographers, and they reported this was once a cooler planet.1978, Robert Edward Vardeman, The Sandcats of Rhyl, →ISBN

Forms of galactographer

pluralgalactographers

Origin of galactographer

From galactography (“science of charting and mapping galaxies”) + -er. Coined by American science fiction author Edmond Hamilton in his 1965 novelette The Shores of Infinity.

Questions about galactographer

What does galactographer mean?
Galactographer means a specialist in galactography.
What part of speech is galactographer?
Galactographer is a noun.
What is the plural of galactographer?
The plural of galactographer is galactographers.

Words near galactographer in the dictionary

  1. galactoglycoproteins
  2. galactogogue
  3. galactogogues
  4. galactogram
  5. galactograms
  6. galactographer
  7. galactographers
  8. galactographic
  9. galactographically
  10. galactographies
  11. galactography

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