the general surface of the moon or a representation of it
moonscape in American English
(ˈmunˌskeɪp)
noun
the surface of the moon or a representation of it
Word origin
moon + landscape
moonscape in American English
(ˈmuːnˌskeip)
noun
1.
the general appearance of the surface of the moon
2.
an artistic representation of it
3.
a land area that resembles the surface of the moon, esp. in barrenness and desolation
Word origin
[1925–30; moon + (land)scape]This word is first recorded in the period 1925–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Nazi, dropout, hot spot, recycle, reflex camera
Examples of 'moonscape' in a sentence
moonscape
The recently relaid pitch looked like a moonscape in places.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
What an unbelievable contrast must this have been to a moonscape?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Up through the grey moonscape, past the vast pockmarks of worryingly recent eruptions.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
Chaos, by contrast, is a hard, grey moonscape of a book.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
Some sections are a ghostly white moonscape, where gravel has scoured the chalk.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
We look out over a kind of badlands, a moonscape of dry clay hills, grotesquely eroded by time.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Here, we stand in a vast sandy moonscape and everything is golden, and perfect and very hot.