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mapful

mapful noun: a quantity (of something) described by a map.

Noun

mapful (plural mapfuls)

  1. A quantity (of something) described by a map.
    • Discover the mapful of fun that's around you anywhere you live (and drive).1957, Ethyl News, page c
    • And a tankful lasts a mapful of miles.1961, Briton Hadden, Time - Volume 78, Part 2, page 9
  2. A quantity (of something) that forms a map or a map-like image.
    • When he smiled, which he was doing as he came around the corner into the living room, you could see a mapful of lines and creases and a good set of teeth with one gold one on the left.1965, Ann Borowik, Lions Three: Christians Nothing, page 65
    • And the woman highest in rank usually has quite a few years tucked under her belt, and a mapful of wrinkles on her face.2013, Indu Sundaresan, The Mountain of Light: A Novel, →ISBN

Examples of mapful in a sentence

  • He was confronted with a mapful of Irish place names and a population the majority of which could speak nothing else.1979, C. Desmond Greaves, Sean O'Casey, politics and art, page 19:
  • And through those vastly sophisticated lenses I imagined Niña Gorda absorbing all the intricate topography of this new land: devouring, with every wing stroke, mapfuls of precisely delineated terrain.2010, Alan Tennant, On The Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with a Peregrine Falcon, →ISBN:
  • A mapful of nautical adventures awaited him, so he bought himself a yacht and sailed the oceans on a couple of four-year expeditions.2016, Luiz Eduardo Soares, Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City, →ISBN:

Forms of mapful

pluralmapfuls

Origin of mapful

From map + -ful.

Questions about mapful

What does mapful mean?
Mapful means a quantity (of something) described by a map.
How do you use mapful in a sentence?
He was confronted with a mapful of Irish place names and a population the majority of which could speak nothing else.
What part of speech is mapful?
Mapful is a noun.
What is the plural of mapful?
The plural of mapful is mapfuls.

Words near mapful in the dictionary

  1. mapenterol
  2. mapepire
  3. mapepires
  4. Mapes
  5. Mapeses
  6. mapful
  7. mapfuls
  8. maphack
  9. maphacks
  10. maphead
  11. mapheads

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