Map Meaning
/mæp/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
nounA graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
Sentence Examples
Please, can you indicate this to me on the map?
Churches are designated on the map with crosses.
I've put a cross on the map to show where the hotel is.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The experienced explorer used a detailed ____ to navigate through the dense jungle without getting lost.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We used a detailed ____ to help us find our way through the dense forest and back to the main campsite.
Word Origin & History
Shortening or back-formation of Middle English mappemounde, mapemounde (“world map”), from Old French mapamonde, from Medieval Latin mappa mundī, compound of Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”) and mundus (“world”). See mop for more on the first component. Doublet of mop, nape, and nappe.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story."
— 2012 March–April, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106:
"Anna, it is a map."
— 2016, “Learning English (public domain)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), via VOA, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2017:
"The 256 bytes of internal RAM are subdivided as shown in the memory map above."
— 2005, Craig Steiner, The 8051/8052 Microcontroller, page 9:
"Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work."
— 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2017, page 171:
"And as the eye rested on him, he too filled me with pity and terror, for his map was flushed and his manner distraught. He looked like Jack Dempsey at the conclusion of his first conference with Gene Tunney, the occasion, if you remember, when he forgot to duck."
— 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The experienced explorer used a detailed ____ to navigate through the dense jungle without getting lost.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We used a detailed ____ to help us find our way through the dense forest and back to the main campsite.