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CITYSCAPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cityscape mean?
• CITYSCAPE (noun)
The noun CITYSCAPE has 2 senses:
1. a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area
2. painting depicting a city or urban area
Familiarity information: CITYSCAPE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Context example:
the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty
Hypernyms ("cityscape" is a kind of...):
point of view; stand; standpoint; viewpoint (a mental position from which things are viewed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Painting depicting a city or urban area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cityscape" is a kind of...):
painting; picture (graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface)
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