skyscape

[ skahy-skeyp ]

noun

1. a section or portion of the sky, usually extensive and often including part of the horizon, that may be seen from a single viewpoint.
2. a picture representing this.

skyscape

/ ˈskaɪˌskeɪp /

noun

1. a painting, drawing, photograph, etc, representing or depicting the sky

Word History and Origins

Origin of skyscape¹

First recorded in 1810–20; sky + -scape

Example Sentences

The skyscape of this city is peppered with examples of architectural “I’ll go higher still” one-upmanship.

From BBC

That’s so far from the Singapore we think of today, this super clean, modern, sanitized, really “advanced” place — the Singapore of the “Crazy Rich Asians” image of a glittering skyscape.

From Seattle Times

In one, from 1979, titled “James Baldwin in Setting Sun Over Harlem,” Smith, using double exposure, overlays very faintly a photo she took of Baldwin onto a skyscape of light-shot dark clouds.

From New York Times

In Gibraltar, an ever-present lenticular cloud known as the “Levanter” is a staple of the city’s skyscape.

From Washington Post

The architecture of Bunker Hill is dismissed as “a Miesian skyscape raised to dementia.”

From Los Angeles Times