Galactographer
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
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.
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