moonscape
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- noun
- /ˈmuːnˌskeɪp/
- By that time, machine guns, artillery, and poison gas had turned miles of the country into a barren moonscape.
Examples
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A cratered moonscape came into view.
Fiction book (1993) -
Through the shimmering heat, we see the outlines of the African mountains: an arid moonscape, dust clouds blowing in the wind.
Fiction book (2002) -
She stood on this newly created moonscape, looking up while the dust and ash rose around her.
Fiction book (1997) -
Sand and pebbles blasted the wall, turning it into a miniature moonscape.
Fiction book (1999) -
She quickly shook off any feelings of uneasiness and began leading her party across the gray moonscape to the cemetery.
Fiction book (1996) -
To the side of him, coming into view in the light through the falling snow, was a long semi-circle of humped shapes, snow-covered horses like a moonscape of boulders.
Fiction book (1997) -
A photographic mural that stretches from floor to ceiling shows the site before it was turned into a moonscape of artillery craters and looters' pits.
Academic text (2008) -
After the volcano erupted, the landscape resembled a moonscape, with blackened rocks and no vegetation in sight.
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The abandoned quarry left a barren moonscape that looked like another planet, stark and empty.
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Walking through the desert, I was struck by the moonscape of cracked earth and sparse rocks scattered around.
Antonyms
How Moonlike
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word moonscape is made from moon and -scape, the same -scape in landscape and seascape that means 'view' or 'scene'. So a moonscape is a scene that looks like the moon: barren, rocky, and empty.