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.

• "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."