Phrase guide

world map

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /wɜːld ˈmæp/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada, General-American: /wɝːld ˈmæp/

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noun

Meaning 1

A map of a world; a cartographic representation, a projection done to scale, representative of a planet's surface.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:world map.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Compound of world + map.

Across languages

Translations

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: wêreldkaart — map of a world
  • Albanian: harta e botës — map of a world
  • Arabic: خَرِيطَةُ الْعَالَمِ (ḵarīṭatu al-ʕālami) — map of a world
  • Belarusian: ка́рта све́ту (kárta svjétu) — map of a world
  • Chinese Cantonese: 世界地圖 /世界地图 (sai3 gaai3 dei6 tou4) — map of a world
  • Chinese Mandarin: 世界地圖 /世界地图 (shìjiè dìtú) — map of a world
  • Danish: verdenskort — map of a world
  • Dutch: wereldkaart — map of a world
  • Faroese: heimskort — map of a world
  • Finnish: maailmankartta — map of a world
  • French: planisphère — map of a world
  • French: mappemonde — map of a world
  • French: carte du monde — map of a world
  • German: Weltkarte — map of a world
  • Hungarian: világtérkép — map of a world
  • Icelandic: heimskort — map of a world
  • Italian: planisfero — map of a world
  • Italian: mappamondo — map of a world
  • Japanese: 世界地図 (sekai chizu) — map of a world
  • Korean: 세계지도 (segyejido) — map of a world
  • Luxembourgish: Weltkaart — map of a world
  • Classical Nahuatl: cemanahuactli imachiyo — map of a world
  • Norwegian Bokmål: verdenskart — map of a world
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: verdskart — map of a world
  • Persian: نقشه جهان (naqše-ye jahân) — map of a world
  • Portuguese: mapa-múndi — map of a world
  • Romanian: hartă a lumii — map of a world
  • Russian: ка́рта ми́ра (kárta míra) — map of a world
  • Spanish: mapamundi — map of a world
  • Swedish: världskarta — map of a world
  • Tagalog: mapa ng daigdig — map of a world
  • Tagalog: mapa ng mundo — map of a world
  • Turkish: dünya haritası — map of a world
  • Ukrainian: ка́рта сві́ту (kárta svítu) — map of a world