Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An artistic representation, such as a painting or photograph, of a city.
- noun A city or section of a city regarded as a scene.
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- noun The view of the buildings of a
city , usually referring to a picturedlandscape .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun painting depicting a city or urban area
- noun a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area
Etymologies
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Examples
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The single visible eye in the face appearing behind the cityscape is captivating.
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At Uruba, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Chemonges explained how Mogadishu's once highly developed cityscape is providing problems today.
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At Uruba, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Chemonges explained how Mogadishu's once highly developed cityscape is providing problems today.
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In every age in every successful country, it has been important that at least a small part of the cityscape is not dominated by bankers, developers, chain stores, generic restaurants, and railway terminals.
Boing Boing 2008
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I forgot to mention the new Vox LJ style I picked out, which is an awesome Austin cityscape designed by Tiffany Chow.
March 9th, 2007 2007
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A police officer was gazing with mixed emotions at the dreary cityscape from the seventh floor of Reading Central Police Station.
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The newest addition to the cityscape was a giant two-story TV screen blaring out advertisements for cosmetics and electrical goods.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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The newest addition to the cityscape was a giant two-story TV screen blaring out advertisements for cosmetics and electrical goods.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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The newest addition to the cityscape was a giant two-story TV screen blaring out advertisements for cosmetics and electrical goods.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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The cityscape was a granite-and-glass mountain range, all glistening peaks and shadowy valleys of ceaseless life, a throbbing, pulsating, never-resting free-for-all of people and ideas and stories just screaming to be told.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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