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Definition of "nightscape" [nightscape]

  • A view or representation of a night scene. (noun)
  • A night scene considered together with all the elements and features constituting it: "a nightscape of black shiny streets and glistening light” ( David Denby). (noun)
  • A situation likened to a scene late at night: "His trip . . . is an eerie nightscape full of rubble and reflexive violence” ( Time). (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "nightscape" in a sentence
  • "In the end; Roland's ka-tet will come to the nightscape which is Thunderclap ... and to what lies beyond it."
  • "He sent a photo of himself and one of the view from his apartment: a twinkling skyline nightscape looking west toward Central Park."
  • "Though some of these works are significant Samuel Palmer's Arcadian landscape bathed in a pink-and-gold sunset; Arthur Melville's nightscape of Venice, golden stone rising through a velvet blue-black sky, they form in aggregate the least interesting body of work in the show."
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