mythscape

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UK/ˈmɪθskeɪp/

noun

A landscape based on myth, or expressed in terms of myth.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounmythscape (plural mythscapes)

plural mythscapes

  1. A landscape based on myth, or expressed in terms of myth.

    Forlorn and diminishing, these pathetic gods still inhabit the American mythscape.

    2003, Richard Walsh, Reading the Gospels in the Dark, page 173
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    Kosovo was at the centre of the Serbian mythscape but it was not, in ethnic terms, an unequivocally Serbian territory.

    2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 24

    The entire complex of sites constitutes a “sacred geography,” a meaningful mythscape, for each site consists of the petrification of events from the Before World of the primordial past.

    2013, Robin M Wright, Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon, page 217

Origin

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APA

mythscape. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mythscape

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“mythscape.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mythscape. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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