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floodmap

floodmap is the alternative form of flood map.

Meaning of flood map

Noun

flood map (plural flood maps)

  1. A map showing how an area would look in case of flooding, or rising sea levels.
    • In New York City, property owners seeking to rebound from the storm will have to feel their way through a wilderness of new flood maps, revamped building codes and land-use ordinances, along with a host of other measures addressing the specific needs of storm-battered communities — all of which...2012 December 21, David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli, Sarah Maslin Nir, “On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now”, in New York Times

Forms of floodmap

pluralfloodmaps

Questions about floodmap

What is floodmap the alternative form of?
Floodmap is the alternative form of flood map.

Words near floodmap in the dictionary

  1. floodlighted
  2. floodlighting
  3. floodlights
  4. floodlike
  5. floodlit
  6. floodmap
  7. floodmaps
  8. floodmark
  9. floodmarks
  10. floodometer
  11. floodometers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: floodmap (page history and authors); flood map (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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