townscape.

The arrangement and appearance of a town's buildings and other visible features, considered as a whole.

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Words that belong together

• a historic townscape
• the changing townscape
• a townscape painting

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The tower altered the townscape without changing a single street below it.

From the hill, the townscape was a pattern of slate roofs punctuated by factory chimneys.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Singular townscape; plural townscapes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.