ORDNANCE SURVEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ordnance Survey mean? 

• ORDNANCE SURVEY (noun)
  The noun ORDNANCE SURVEY has 1 sense:

1. the official cartography agency of the British government

  Familiarity information: ORDNANCE SURVEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDNANCE SURVEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The official cartography agency of the British government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Ordnance Survey" is a kind of...):

administrative body; administrative unit (a unit with administrative responsibilities)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)