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wordscapes

wordscapes is the plural of wordscape.

Meaning of wordscape

Noun

wordscape (plural wordscapes)

  1. A landscape constructed from words or language; a word collage.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) The whole lexicon (word-stock) of a language conceived as such a landscape or collage.
    • […] we wonder whether the phrase might not be some mis-translation or a misprint […], but no matter, the phrase as is has a certain ring to it and bids fair to be a part of our wordscape for the foreseeable future. So we accept the reality of the notion and imagine that perhaps, like leprechauns...1987, David Justice, The Semantics of Form in Arabic in the Mirror of European Languages (Studies in Language), volume 15, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 188

Questions about wordscapes

What is wordscapes the plural of?
Wordscapes is the plural of wordscape.

Words near wordscapes in the dictionary

  1. words to conjure with
  2. words to the wise
  3. words up
  4. words-as-words distinction
  5. wordscape
  6. wordscapes
  7. wordsearch
  8. wordsearches
  9. wordshape
  10. wordshapes
  11. wordshaping

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