Moonscape
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Moonscape is a noun meaning A view of an area of the Moon.
Meaning
A view of an area of the Moon.
More Meanings
- (by extension) A desolate or devastated landscape.
Example Sentences
They made their way to a geological formation called Kap Kobenhavn, a series of bare hills as desolate as a moonscape.
In the Australian outback, industrial activity — notably open-pit coal mining — has turned verdant areas into moonscapes seemingly overnight, and the suicide rate in the region has skyrocketed.
They had never managed to host many events on their property, in part because some of the surrounding area remained a moonscape. The cork oak where Phillip wanted his ashes spread had burned down in the last fire.
Looking across the recently flattened, desolate moonscape of this former 52-acre Great Western depot and industrial area, south of Willesden Junction in west London, it's hard to imagine it will be home to the UK's largest, busiest and best-connected new railway station since Victorian times.
Word Forms
- moonscapes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lunarscape, earthscape, spacescape, planetscape, selenograph, macula.
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