socialscape

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noun

A social landscape.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nounsocialscape (plural socialscapes)

plural socialscapes

  1. literaryrareA social landscape.

    As physical artifact, intellectual idea, and socialscape, the horse-road unambiguously connected with the new modern city coming into being.

    2006, Peter J. Carroll, Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937
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    Each wave threatened settled foundations, often washing away old understandings and leaving only contested socialscapes. The surge rushed against diverse peoples with long roots in the soil […]

    2012, Thomas J. Davis, Plessy v. Ferguson

Origin

From social + -scape.

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APA

socialscape. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/socialscape

MLA

“socialscape.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/socialscape. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “socialscape,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/socialscape.

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