-scape suffix forming nouns indicating a scene or view of something, esp a pictorial representation: seascape. [abstracted from landscape]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014scape1 (ske?p) n. 1. a leafless flower stalk rising from the ground. 2. Archit. the shaft of a column. [1595?1605;