MAP COLLECTION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A collection of maps in book form

Synonyms:

atlas; book of maps; map collection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("map collection" is a kind of...):

book of facts; reference; reference book; reference work (a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts)

Meronyms (parts of "map collection"):

gazetteer (a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "map collection"):

dialect atlas; linguistic atlas (an atlas showing the distribution of distinctive linguistic features)