Cityscape (Noun)
Meaning 1
Painting depicting a city or urban area.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
A viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area; "the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty".
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The artist's latest painting depicted a gritty cityscape, with crumbling buildings and littered streets.
- From the top of the skyscraper, the cityscape stretched out before us, a dazzling array of lights and sounds.
- The city's poor urban planning had resulted in a cityscape of cramped alleyways and dilapidated housing.
- As we walked through the city, the ever-changing cityscape was a constant reminder of the area's rich history and cultural diversity.
- The photograph's somber tone captured the desolate cityscape of a city ravaged by war and economic decline.