单词 | cityscape |
释义 | cityscapen. 1. The visual appearance of a city; the landscape or layout of a city or urban area; urban scenery. Cf. urbanscape n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > view or scenery > others street scene1673 skyscape1811 streetscape1833 cityscape1856 skyline1875 townscape1880 roofscape1891 roadscape1899 farmscape1922 manscape1927 slumscape1947 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town- or city-scape cityscape1856 townscape1867 built environment1942 urbanscape1958 1856 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 19 July 86/2 We do not deny that it is extremely pleasant to take an occasional run into the country to enjoy, not the land—but the city-scape. 1856 W. M. Thackeray Let. 28 Dec. in Lett. A. T. Ritchie (1924) v. 82 A fairyland of frozen land, river and city-scape. 1914 E. W. Peattie Precipice xvii. 208 Honora..peering out at the early summer cityscape. 1952 D. Hoffman Paul Bunyan v. 133 His attempts to describe cityscapes in terms of neo-Wordsworthian natural beauty. 1959 Archit. Rev. 125 373/3 A preference for landscape over cityscape. 2007 Opera Now Mar. 71/1 It took me a full day before I was able to find my way about, so altered is the cityscape. 2. A painting, picture, or other artistic representation of a city or urban area. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > landscape-painting > a landscape or view > type of paysage1611 winter piece1612 rockscape1754 pastoral1798 skyscape1811 snow scene1836 icescape1839 cloudscape1868 townscape1880 winterscape1884 treescape1885 farmscape1886 cowscape1896 roadscape1899 cityscape1915 dunescape1928 slumscape1947 hellscape1959 jungle-scape1973 1915 W. H. Wright Mod. Painting xi. 260 Delaunay's..cityscapes with the Eiffel tower as the principal object are interesting though not profound. 1960 20th Cent. Apr. 375 Private Fires is a cityscape, a rich Dickensian evocation of a decaying, badly-blitzed suburb. 1988 Mid-Atlantic Country Mar. 24/2 A mid-career retrospective..which includes 53 cityscapes, landscapes, new events paintings, and political and art-world allegories. 2011 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Aug. c18 ‘Street’..covers everything from graffiti to junk sculpture to painted cityscapes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1856 |
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