mapful

A quantity (of something) described by a map.

Noun

  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:
    • 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:
  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:...
    • 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:
    • Once in a while Werner tows Jutta as far as the entrance to Pit Nine, the largest of the mines, wrapped in noise, lit like a pilot at the center of a gas furnace, a five-story coal elevator crouched over it, cables...

Origin

From map + -ful.

Forms

mapfuls