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surveyour

surveyour is the obsolete form of surveyor.

Meaning of surveyor

Noun

surveyor (plural surveyors)

  1. A person occupied with surveying: the process of determining positions on the earth's surface.
    • The "D.N.B." wrote of one Railway Member that "he made himself personally acquainted with the working of the new systems of railroads, and with more foresight than his neighbours, he welcomed railways on his estate when other landowners were ordering their gamekeepers to warn off the surveyors or...1960 March, N. Caplan, “The Railway Member of Parliament”, in Railway Magazine, page 208
  2. One who carries out a survey or poll.
  3. (UK) A person charged with inspecting something for the purpose of determining its condition, value, etc.
    • Other costs associated with selling a home include surveyor's fees, legal fees, estate agent's commission, stamp duty and the VAT.

Forms of surveyour

pluralsurveyours

Questions about surveyour

What is surveyour the obsolete form of?
Surveyour is the obsolete form of surveyor.

Words near surveyour in the dictionary

  1. surveyor's formula
  2. surveyors
  3. Surveyors Bay
  4. surveyorship
  5. surveyorships
  6. surveyour
  7. surveyours
  8. surveys
  9. surview
  10. surviewed
  11. surviewing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: surveyour (page history and authors); surveyor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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