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-scape

A specified type of scene, or a representation of it.

The ending of English landscape.

This combining form is common and active, both to describe real scenes (cityscape, streetscape) and virtual or imaginary ones (dreamscape, mindscape). It is frequently employed to make casual formations, often used only once: Californiascape, skyscraperscape, plotscape.

Escape does not belong here, being formed from Latin ex‑, out, and cappa, cloak, figuratively to take off one's cloak, to throw off restraint.

Examples of words in -scape
Terms are based on English stems.

cityscape

the visual appearance of a city or urban area; a city landscape

cloudscape

a scene of clouds

dreamscape

a landscape or scene with the strangeness or mystery characteristic of dreams

interiorscape

the appearance of the inside of a building, especially in relation to interior design; a mental landscape

mediascape

the world as it appears in the broadcasting and print media, considered to be distorted from reality in some respect

mindscape

a mental view of one's surroundings

moonscape

a view of the surface of the Moon, or an area that resembles it in barrenness and desolation

nightscape

a night-time view, say of a city

soundscape

a piece of music considered in terms of its component sounds

streetscape

a view of streets, or an environment of streets, especially in an urban area

timescape

time considered as an unchanging analogue to landscape

townscape

the visual appearance of a town or urban area; an urban landscape

xeriscape

a style of landscape design requiring little or no irrigation or other maintenance, used in arid regions (Greek xēros, dry)

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