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soundscapes

soundscapes is the plural of soundscape.

Meaning of soundscape

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.

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Questions about soundscapes

What is soundscapes the plural of?
Soundscapes is the plural of soundscape.

Words near soundscapes in the dictionary

  1. sounds off
  2. sounds out
  3. sounds the alarm
  4. soundscape
  5. soundscaped
  6. soundscapes
  7. soundscaping
  8. soundscapist
  9. soundscapists
  10. soundscore
  11. soundscores

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soundscapes (page history and authors); 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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