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-scape

-scape suffix: form, formation, shape.

Suffix

-scape (noun-forming suffix, plural -scapes)

  1. form, formation, shape
  2. scene, picture, view
  3. A specific type of space

Forms of -scape

plural-scapes

Origin of -scape

Back-formation from landscape, the suffix representing Middle Dutch -schap (“the English suffix -ship, e.g. of friendship, kinship, ownership”), from Old Dutch -skap (“-ship”), from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz (“-ship”), from *skapaz (“shape, form”). Cognate with Modern Dutch -schap (“-ship”), German -schaft (“-ship”), Swedish -skap (“-ship”), -scipe (“-ship”). More at -ship, shape.

Questions about -scape

What does -scape mean?
-scape means form, formation, shape.
What part of speech is -scape?
-scape is a suffix.

Words near -scape in the dictionary

  1. -sauras
  2. -sauri
  3. -sauros
  4. -saurus
  5. -sauruses
  6. -scape
  7. -scapes
  8. -scope
  9. -scopic
  10. -scopy
  11. -scraper

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -scape (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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