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soundscape

/ˈsaʊndskeɪp/

soundscape noun: an acoustic environment, a virtual/emotional environment created using sound.

Noun

soundscape (plural soundscapes)

  1. An acoustic environment, a virtual/emotional environment created using sound.
    • Kleist’s drama is in that tradition and Mr. Bakewell was always in command of it. His soundscape of the field of Fehrbellin presented a tremendous panorama to the mind’s eye.1958, British Broadcasting Corporation, The Listener, volume 59, page 475
  2. An electroacoustic musical composition creating a sound portrait of a sound environment.

Verb

soundscape (third-person singular simple present soundscapes, present participle soundscaping, simple past and past participle soundscaped)

  1. To establish or define an acoustic environment, either a virtual one created using sound or a physical one created architecturally to have specific effects on sound.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:soundscaped.

Forms of soundscape

Noun
pluralsoundscapes
Verb
third-person singular presentsoundscapes
present participlesoundscaping
past participlesoundscaped
pastsoundscaped

Origin of soundscape

From sound + -scape.

Words formed from soundscape

Words that rhyme with soundscape

21 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about soundscape

What does soundscape mean?
Soundscape means an acoustic environment, a virtual/emotional environment created using sound.
What part of speech is soundscape?
Soundscape can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce soundscape?
Soundscape is pronounced /ˈsaʊndskeɪp/.
What is the plural of soundscape?
The plural of soundscape is soundscapes.

Words near soundscape in the dictionary

  1. sounds good
  2. sounds like a plan
  3. sounds off
  4. sounds out
  5. sounds the alarm
  6. soundscape
  7. soundscaped
  8. soundscapes
  9. soundscaping
  10. soundscapist
  11. soundscapists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soundscape (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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