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socialscape

socialscape noun: a social landscape.

Noun

socialscape (plural socialscapes)

  1. (literary, rare) A social landscape.
    • As physical artifact, intellectual idea, and socialscape, the horse-road unambiguously connected with the new modern city coming into being.2006, Peter J. Carroll, Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937
    • Each wave threatened settled foundations, often washing away old understandings and leaving only contested socialscapes. The surge rushed against diverse peoples with long roots in the soil […]2012, Thomas J. Davis, Plessy v. Ferguson

Forms of socialscape

pluralsocialscapes

Origin of socialscape

From social + -scape.

Questions about socialscape

What does socialscape mean?
Socialscape means a social landscape.
What part of speech is socialscape?
Socialscape is a noun.
What is the plural of socialscape?
The plural of socialscape is socialscapes.

Words near socialscape in the dictionary

  1. socially-isolated
  2. socialness
  3. socialpreneur
  4. socialpreneurs
  5. socials
  6. socialscape
  7. socialscapes
  8. Socias
  9. sociate
  10. sociated
  11. sociates

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