moonscape
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.59 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A desolate or devastated landscape.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "They made their way to a geological formation called Kap Kobenhavn, a series of bare hills as desolate as a moonscape."
- "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."
Etymology
Subject
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