surveyor

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who surveys or views.
2. n. An overseer; a superintendent.
3. n. A household officer; a supervisor of the other servants.
4. n. One who views and examines something for the purpose of ascertaining its condition, quantity, or quality: as, a surveyor of roads and bridges; a surveyor of weights and measures.
5. n. One who measures land, or practises the art of surveying.
6. n. An officer of the British navy whose duty it is to supervise the building and repairing of ships for the navy.
7. n. A common name in Australia for a fish, Serranus geometricus.
8. n. Formerly an architect.

Wiktionary

1. n. A person occupied with surveying -- the process of determining positions on the earth's surface.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.
2. n. One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything
3. n. One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.
4. n. An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.
5. n. In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. someone who conducts a statistical survey
2. n. an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures