🇬🇧🇨🇳 cityscape - 城市景观 : English Lesson

Meaning of "cityscape" ("城市景观"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A cityscape is what you see when you look at a city from far away or from high up—lots of tall buildings, busy streets, and glowing lights all together like a giant picture of the city.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

At night the cityscape was so bright that the stars probably complained about the competition.

When the lights turned on, the cityscape looked like the city put on sparkly pajamas.

The cityscape was beautiful, but my little brother wanted to know where the closest pizza in the picture was.

From the airplane window, the cityscape looked like someone dropped a motherboard and called it urban planning.

The cityscape had so many skyscrapers that I thought they were playing “who can poke the sky first.”

On the rooftop, she set her camera and looked at the cityscape: tall buildings, narrow streets, string lights. The cityscape changed as dusk fell; the cityscape reflected in one window, then in puddles. She sketched the cityscape fast, laughing at a perfect light. Her picture held the cityscape, and she sighed, pleased.

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This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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