SOUNDSCAPE

Etymology

Noun

soundscape (plural soundscapes)

An acoustic environment, a virtual/emotional environment created using sound.

A soundscape composition, an electroacoustic musical composition creating a sound portrait of a sound environment.

Verb

soundscape (third-person singular simple present soundscapes, present participle soundscaping, simple past and past participle soundscaped)

To establish or define an acoustic environment, either a virtual one created using sound or a physical one created architecturally to have specific effects on sound.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

19 April 2025

CATCH

(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”


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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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