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dancescape

dancescape noun: a figurative landscape of dancing or dance trends.

Noun

dancescape (plural dancescapes)

  1. A figurative landscape of dancing or dance trends.
    • He could take Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht, for instance, and set it to sweeping movement as the dramatic situation dictated, as well as to inward, seemingly motionless dancescapes that honored the music's aura.1991, Donna Perlmutter, Shadowplay: The Life of Antony Tudor, page 2
    • Everyone is blind and deaf in their own private dancescapes.2007, Ian McDonald, River of Gods, page 64

Forms of dancescape

pluraldancescapes

Origin of dancescape

From dance + -scape.

Questions about dancescape

What does dancescape mean?
Dancescape means a figurative landscape of dancing or dance trends.
What part of speech is dancescape?
Dancescape is a noun.
What is the plural of dancescape?
The plural of dancescape is dancescapes.

Words near dancescape in the dictionary

  1. dances to a different tune
  2. dances to a new tune
  3. dances to someone's tune
  4. dances upon nothing
  5. dances with the devil
  6. dancescape
  7. dancescapes
  8. dancesport
  9. dancest
  10. danceth
  11. dancetime

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