cityscape

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,657 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: cityscapes

A cityscape is the view of a city taken as a whole. The London cityscape, a cityscape at night, paint a cityscape.

It is built on landscape and describes the shape a city makes against the sky rather than any one building. Painters and photographers use the word for the picture itself as well as for the view.

Definitions of cityscape

1nouncityscapeThe view of a city as a whole.B2+
“The window framed a cityscape of cranes and towers.”

cityscape is a view.

Where it comes from

Middle English
cite
English
city
English, today
cityscape

Built from

cīvis · Latin — fellow-citizen

From city + -scape. city comes from Middle English cite. Middle English cite, Old French citet, Latin civitas (“city”), in la-cla - "citizenry", derived from cīvis (“fellow-citizen”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱey- (“lie down; settle”). Cognate with Old English hīwan (“members of one's household, servants”). See hewe. a doublet of civitas. Mostly displaced native burg, whence Modern English borough.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in In the City

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cityscape in the wild

The cityscape within Saddleback Valley is suburban, a remote reach of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Saddleback Valley
A veduta (Italian for 'view'; pl. vedute) is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista.
Veduta
The cityscape depicts the life of the main street of Leningrad on a summer day of the mid-1980s.
Nevsky Prospekt (painting)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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the cīvis family

city

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