Meaning of maphead | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who is particularly interested in maps and geography.

informal

Examples

“"Marginalized"? You got an old map, dollikins, and you must be a maphead, and like all mapheads you're scared of the territory, got to get it on paper. Why else would you fondle the concept of "dangerous language"?”

“In this crowd, you don't have to roll your eyes at Mom when she mentions the geography bee in front of your friends — it's okay to be a maphead.”

“The area where the spacecraft landed was called the Fra Mauro Formation, named after the Fra Mauro crater, one of the largest on the moon at 80km across. This didn't quite have the mellifluous ring of Sea of Tranquillity, the site of the first moon landing in 1969, and there is no official record of why members of the International Astronomical Union nominated this particular fifteenth-century Venetian monk as a small but significant addition to its Planetary System Nomenclature. But it may be safe to assume that they were mapheads, and they dug his work.”

“Sometimes the book's appeal goes beyond mapheads (the new term for map lovers). But too often [Timothy] Brook veers off into digressions about historical minutiae that could only be of interest to historical geographers.”

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