Meaning

7 senses

  1. A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.

    a map of Australia, a map of Lilliput

    He bought a map for the tour of Edinburgh Castle.

    Landkarte, Karte, Plan

    ка́ртаkárta, планplan

    ка́ртаkárta, ма́паmápa, планplan

  2. A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.

    a map of the Earth's magnetic field

  3. A function, especially a function satisfying a certain property (e.g. continuity, linearity, etc.; see Usage notes).

    Let f be a map from ℝ to ℝ

    Abbildung

  4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.

    пестрокры́льница изме́нчиваяpestrokrýlʹnica izménčivaja

  5. (UK, dated)The face.

  6. An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.

    I don't want to play this map again!

    Jack loves playing on this Fortnite map.

  7. Synonym of associative array.

More definitions
  • a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
  • (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)

Examples

656 sentences

  1. Take a look at this map.

    Поглянь на цю карту. — aandrusiak

    ruВзгляни на эту карту. — Olya

    deWirf einen Blick auf diese Karte. — kroko

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  2. Here's a big map of Germany.

    Це велика карта Німеччини. — brambury

    ruВот большая карта Германии. — Tonari

    deHier ist eine große Deutschlandkarte. — MUIRIEL

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  3. The map is on the wall.

    Мапа вісить на стіні. — deniko

    ruКарта висит на стене. — ABChessel

    deDie Karte hängt an der Wand. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. There's a map on the wall.

    На стіні висить мапа. — uaspeaker

    ruНа стене висит карта. — Hellerick

    deAn der Wand hängt eine Karte. — al_ex_an_der

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  5. Tom is looking at the map.

    Том дивиться на мапу. — deniko

    ruТом смотрит на карту. — marafon

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
visual representation of an area:
Русский
By meaning 2
visual representation of an area:
butterfly:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
visual representation of an area:
function:

Origin

Shortening or back-formation of Middle English mappemounde, mapemounde (“world map”), from

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.

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Forms

plural: maps
Singularmap
Pluralmaps

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
planA1chartA2functionB1levelA2stageA1mappingassociative array
Close in meaning

Word family

118 related words
Relatedatlascartographercartography
Derivedautomapbackmapbattle mapbitmapblind mapchain mapchaotic mapcharacter mapchoropleth mapchromatomapcolormapcontour mapcoordinate mapcube mapcybermapdissected mapecomapeigenmapempathy mapexponential mapfate mapfield mapflood mapflowmap

Collocations

12 patterns
  • on the map
  • draw a map
  • a map of
  • have a map
  • map on the
  • buy a map
  • at the map
  • on this map
  • a map for
  • the map on
  • at reading maps
  • map of the

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
manyA1maomapleB1mappingmar
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