landscape
a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
a picture representing natural inland or coastal scenery.
Fine Arts. the category of aesthetic subject matter in which natural scenery is represented.
Obsolete. a panoramic view of scenery; vista.
to improve the appearance of (an area of land, a highway, etc.), as by planting trees, shrubs, or grass, or altering the contours of the ground.
to improve the landscape of.
Digital Technology. relating to or producing horizontal, sideways orientation of computer or other digital output, with lines of data parallel to the two longer sides of a page or screen.: Compare portrait (def. 3).
Origin of landscape
1Other words for landscape
Other words from landscape
- re·land·scape, verb, re·land·scaped, re·land·scap·ing.
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How to use landscape in a sentence
The centerpiece is just as dilapidated, but the landscape more sweeping, in Matt Leedham’s picture of a low-slung Irish ruin.
In the galleries: The Washington colorists and the CIA | Mark Jenkins | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostThe digital-media industry has increasingly sought ways to gain heft in an ad landscape dominated by Facebook and Google.
BuzzFeed buys HuffPost from Verizon in latest new-media deal | Verne Kopytoff | November 19, 2020 | FortuneWhile temporary government support provides some relief, it takes much more to help those who’ve lost jobs obtain new work in a rapidly changing landscape.
Charles Koch: Partisan politics don’t work. It’s time for a new way | jakemeth | November 19, 2020 | FortuneThe Prussian naturalist and explorer von Humboldt saw art as a pursuit both scientific and aesthetic, and the show looks at how his writings informed the work of such landscape artists as Frederic Edwin Church.
You have until Nov. 22 to visit these six Smithsonian museums. Here’s what to expect. | Kelsey Ables | November 19, 2020 | Washington PostBartenders from far-flung locales gather at the virtual bar to dish on cocktails in capital cities and how drinks reflect the people, culture, history, future and landscape of a place.
Herman developed his own landscaping business while in high school.
Exclusive: ‘X-Men’ Sex Abuse Lawyer Says He Was Assaulted, Too | Tim Teeman | May 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGavin worked two and three jobs at a time (in restaurants and landscaping) to put himself though community college.
Gavin Arvizo’s New Beginning: Jackson Abuse Accuser Gets Married at 24 | Diane Dimond | December 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was meticulous about his house, manicuring the lawn in front and desert landscaping on the side, she said.
Alleged Phoenix Shooter Found Dead in Apparent Suicide | Christine Pelisek, Terry Greene Sterling | January 31, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTLanza was known to enjoy landscaping, live music, and craft beers.
Newtown Victims: Dawn Hochsprung, Vicki Soto & More | Nina Strochlic | December 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSome former factory owners have even branched out into “green landscaping.”
Each child then drew a rectangle on paper and made an original plan for landscaping.
Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools | Virginia McGawAlong with getting a reasonable expanse of green grass, the simple landscaping plan already referred to should be kept in mind.
If You're Going to Live in the Country | Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond HuntleyThe vogue for formality in English architecture and landscaping was mirrored in the arrangement of the Virginia estates.
Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774. | Philip Vickers FithianHe had taken a keen interest from the beginning in the building of the House and the landscaping of the grounds.
Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia | Carrie Hunter WillisIt was undeveloped until the early 1880's when the city council undertook the task of landscaping.
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British Dictionary definitions for landscape
/ (ˈlændˌskeɪp) /
an extensive area of land regarded as being visually distinct: ugly slagheaps dominated the landscape
a painting, drawing, photograph, etc, depicting natural scenery
the genre including such pictures
(as modifier): landscape painter
the distinctive features of a given area of intellectual activity, regarded as an integrated whole: the landscape of the European imagination
printing
(of a publication or an illustration in a publication) of greater width than height: Compare portrait (def. 3)
(of a page) carrying an illustration or table printed at right angles to the normal text
(tr) to improve the natural features of (a garden, park, etc), as by creating contoured features and planting trees
(intr) to work as a landscape gardener
Origin of landscape
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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