MEANING
A view of a place at night, or an artistic work representing such a view.
Use it for
describing the overall appearance of a place after dark; naming a painting or photograph of a night scene; combining buildings and lights into a nighttime setting; distinguishing a whole scene from an isolated shadowNames the overall appearance of a place at night, rather than merely darkness or a single light effect. Writing functions: Night imagery.
Words that belong together
- an urban nightscape
- a city nightscape
- photograph a nightscape
On the page
Beyond the window, the nightscape broke into scattered roofs and a line of harbor lights.
Her nightscapes left the streets almost empty, making each lit window seem inhabited by a separate world.
Word forms
- Base
- nightscape
Usage notes
Count noun: nightscape/nightscapes. A view and its artistic representation are related uses of the same landscape sense. Register: neutral. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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