Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A painting or other representation of a night scene.
- noun A place or scene at night.
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- noun The nighttime
landscape , or adepiction of this
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the end; Roland's ka-tet will come to the nightscape which is Thunderclap ... and to what lies beyond it.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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That's the premise of Date Night, opening in April and starring Tina Fey and Steve Carell as a bored married couple whose efforts to be people they're not — for at least one glamorous night — lead to a real case of mistaken identity, a Mob effort to kill them and an Odyssean getaway through New York City's nightscape.
First look: 'Date Night' rekindles love and laughs in marriage 2009
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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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He sent a photo of himself and one of the view from his apartment: a twinkling skyline nightscape looking west toward Central Park.
Ann Landi: Dating After Divorce: No Sex Without Commitment? Ann Landi 2011
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He sent a photo of himself and one of the view from his apartment: a twinkling skyline nightscape looking west toward Central Park.
Ann Landi: Dating After Divorce: No Sex Without Commitment? Ann Landi 2011
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In its stead was a forested nightscape, the only sounds the soft ones of wind and insects.
The Shattering Christie Golden 2010
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In its stead was a forested nightscape, the only sounds the soft ones of wind and insects.
The Shattering Christie Golden 2010
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Wow – love the marina nightscape through my bedroom windows.
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A natural nightscape has become as rare as an unspoiled wilderness.
Night Sky Disappearing In Artificial Fog | Disinformation 2008
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As electric lighting replaced flame-based light, new colors entered the nightscape.
Archive 2008-02-01 James Gurney 2008
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