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mythscape

UK/ˈmɪθskeɪp/

mythscape noun: a landscape based on myth, or expressed in terms of myth.

Noun

mythscape (plural mythscapes)

  1. A landscape based on myth, or expressed in terms of myth.
    • Forlorn and diminishing, these pathetic gods still inhabit the American mythscape.2003, Richard Walsh, Reading the Gospels in the Dark, page 173
    • Kosovo was at the centre of the Serbian mythscape but it was not, in ethnic terms, an unequivocally Serbian territory.2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 24

Forms of mythscape

pluralmythscapes

Origin of mythscape

From myth + -scape.

Questions about mythscape

What does mythscape mean?
Mythscape means a landscape based on myth, or expressed in terms of myth.
What part of speech is mythscape?
Mythscape is a noun.
How do you pronounce mythscape?
Mythscape is pronounced /ˈmɪθskeɪp/ (UK).
What is the plural of mythscape?
The plural of mythscape is mythscapes.

Words near mythscape in the dictionary

  1. mythos
  2. mythoses
  3. mythpunk
  4. mythril
  5. myths
  6. mythscape
  7. mythscapes
  8. mythus
  9. mythuses
  10. mythy
  11. Mytilene

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