cityscape

1. 1.

   a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area

   “the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty”

   Broaderpoint of view
2. 2.

   painting depicting a city or urban area

   Broaderpainting

Other forms of cityscape

plural

cityscapes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cityscape

What does cityscape mean?

cityscape means "a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cityscape?

cityscape has 3 syllables: ci-ty-scape. The stress falls on "ci".

Is cityscape a common word?

cityscape is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.