MAP

• map [countable]
• 1 a drawing of a particular area for example a city or country, which shows its main features, such as its roads, rivers, mountains etc:
• According to the map we should turn left.
• I'll draw a map of where we live.
• on a map
• I'm just trying to find Vancouver on the map.
• map of
• a large-scale map of Mexico City
• street/road/route map
• a full colour street map of Amsterdam
• Do you know how to read a map (=understand the information it gives)?
• 2 a drawing of an area showing some kind of special feature, for example the type of rocks, weather, population etc [= chart]:
• an archaeological map of the area
• the colour weather map in the newspaper
• political map (=one showing where political parties have power, or where countries are)
• 3

   put something on the map

  to make a place famous:
• It was the Olympic Games that really put Seoul on the map.
• 4

   off the map

  informal a long way from any large town:
• It's a small place in Nebraska. Right off the map.

• ➔ wipe something off the map

   at wipe1 (8)

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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