mapless
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a word derived from
map.
mapnouna representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation.
Example Sentences
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A sketchy, mapless framework is not a plan.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2022
Last year, he explained to The Paris Review that “Periplum,” his first book, was named after “an ancient form of navigation, a kind of mapless way of moving through space, of reckoning.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2016
He is the educated Slav of all time; he to a large extent explains mapless Poland, and the political inefficiency of the great empire of Russia.
From Essays on Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
To-morrow we head off to the northeast, and into the mapless country.
From The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series by Fred J. Arting
He was a failure, and one day he died. Across the border of the mapless landHe found himself among a sad-eyed bandOf disappointed souls; they, too, had triedAnd missed their purpose.
From Poems of Purpose by Ella Wheeler Wilcox