road map

noun

1

: a map showing roads especially for automobile travel

2

a

: a detailed plan to guide progress toward a goal

b

: a detailed explanation

Synonyms of road map

• plan
• strategy
• blueprint
• program
• project
• scheme
• game plan

Examples of road map in a Sentence

Did you bring a road map?

a road map to peace

Recent Examples on the Web

The body of her birds is usually covered in some type of road map. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026

Stop at that—or get creative using our flexible recipe as a road map. — Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 2 July 2026

Black history — any non-white history, really — is the history of resistance and the road map to recovery from this dark era of hate. — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

The two companies have a road map for future chips, with the next version planned for 2028 and then annually after that, Tan said. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1741, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for road map

• bandgap
• bitmap
• blackcap
• blackstrap
• bootstrap
• burlap
• claptrap
• entrap
• foolscap
• kidnap
• kneecap
• madcap