soundscape.

1. The combined sounds that characterize a place or environment as they are heard.

2. An artistic arrangement of sounds designed to create an atmosphere or particular effect.

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Words that belong together

• urban soundscape
• underwater soundscape
• natural soundscape

On the page

At dusk, frogs and distant motorcycles changed the village's soundscape.

Usage notes

Primary category: poetic / figurative / atmospheric. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Singular soundscape; plural soundscapes. Commonness: moderately common (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Cambridge distinguishes the acoustic environment of a real place from a deliberately created sonic artwork. Writing functions: atmospheric description, sensory precision.