The suffix of one word can lead to so many other interesting words. In looking into the theme for Doodle Week on U3 this Friday I knew I wanted to draw some kind of city skyline, a cityscape. That led to looking up other kinds of words with ‘scape’ as a suffix. That led me to think of words like metropolis, necropolis and cosmopolis, which I had heard of before. I started to look them up, wondering if they all meant the same thing more or less. They do and yet they don’t. The differences were what made each one unusual.
Metropolis: A city or an urban area regarded as the center of a specific region or activity.
Astropolis: Star-scaled city/industry area; complex space station.
Cosmopolis: A large urban centre with a population of many different cultural backgrounds.
Ecumenopolis: A city that covers an entire planet, usually seen in science fiction.
Megalopolis: Built by merging several cities and their suburbs.
Necropolis: ‘City of the dead’. A graveyard.
Technopolis: City with high-tech industry; room full of computers; the Internet.
Cityscape: A view of a city, esp. a large urban center.
Townscape: A scene or view, either pictorial or natural, of a town or city.
Landscape: A section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
Seascape: A panoramic view of the sea.
Skyline: The outline of something, as the buildings of a city, against the sky.
The drawing of the cityscape/ skyline is for Doodle Week. This week the theme is cityscapes.
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