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lightscape

lightscape noun: an illuminated environment; a lighting arrangement that picks out some details and obscures others.

Noun

lightscape (plural lightscapes)

  1. An illuminated environment; a lighting arrangement that picks out some details and obscures others.
    • The theater house can encourage the lighting designer to imagine extraordinary lightscapes or it can limit the placement of lights, resulting in constant frustration that is stimulating to no one.2000, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, Theaters
    • The Service will preserve, to the greatest extent possible, the natural lightscapes of parks, which are natural resources and values that exist in the absence of human-caused light.2006, United States, Management Policies 2006, National Park Service, page 57

Forms of lightscape

plurallightscapes

Origin of lightscape

From light + -scape.

Questions about lightscape

What does lightscape mean?
Lightscape means an illuminated environment; a lighting arrangement that picks out some details and obscures others.
What part of speech is lightscape?
Lightscape is a noun.
What is the plural of lightscape?
The plural of lightscape is lightscapes.

Words near lightscape in the dictionary

  1. lightsabers
  2. lightsabre
  3. lightsabres
  4. lightsail
  5. lightsails
  6. lightscape
  7. lightscapes
  8. lightscot
  9. Lightsey
  10. Lightseys
  11. lightshade

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