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deathscape

deathscape noun: a notional landscape of death or the cultural practices that surround it.

Noun

deathscape (plural deathscapes)

  1. A notional landscape of death or the cultural practices that surround it.
    • We in the present stand helpless as, with the aid of survivors and surviving testimonies, we look into the nightmarish deathscapes of the Holocaust, unable to intervene.2006, Tom Lawson, The Church of England and the Holocaust: Christianity, Memory and Nazism

Forms of deathscape

pluraldeathscapes

Origin of deathscape

From death + -scape.

Questions about deathscape

What does deathscape mean?
Deathscape means a notional landscape of death or the cultural practices that surround it.
What part of speech is deathscape?
Deathscape is a noun.
What is the plural of deathscape?
The plural of deathscape is deathscapes.

Words near deathscape in the dictionary

  1. deaths by coconut
  2. deaths by cop
  3. deaths by misadventure
  4. deaths by PowerPoint
  5. deaths of despair
  6. deathscape
  7. deathscapes
  8. deathskull
  9. deathskulls
  10. deathsman
  11. deathsmen

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