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landscape

[land-skeyp]
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noun
  1. a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
  2. a picture representing natural inland or coastal scenery.
  3. Fine Arts. the category of aesthetic subject matter in which natural scenery is represented.
  4. Obsolete. a panoramic view of scenery; vista.
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verb (used with object), land·scaped, land·scap·ing.
  1. 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.
  2. to improve the landscape of.
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verb (used without object), land·scaped, land·scap·ing.
  1. to do landscape gardening as a profession.
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adjective
  1. 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).
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Origin of landscape

1590–1600; 1925–30 for def 6; < Dutch landschap; cognate with Old English landsceap, landscipe; akin to German Landschaft. See land, -ship
Related formsre·land·scape, verb, re·land·scaped, re·land·scap·ing.

Synonyms

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1. view, scenery, vista, prospect.
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Examples from the Web for landscape

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  • These landscape fellows buy their stuff direct, and the middleman's out.

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    Mary Roberts Rinehart

  • After two hours' climb, the features of the landscape change.

    The Roof of France

    Matilda Betham-Edwards

  • The Sunday landscape was very still, save for the hum of busy insect life.

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    Mary Roberts Rinehart

  • "I was not observing the landscape," the other explains, carefully.

  • How did the landscape appeal to you when you left the campfire?

    Her Father's Daughter

    Gene Stratton-Porter

British Dictionary definitions for landscape

landscape

noun
  1. an extensive area of land regarded as being visually distinctugly slagheaps dominated the landscape
  2. a painting, drawing, photograph, etc, depicting natural scenery
    1. the genre including such pictures
    2. (as modifier)landscape painter
  4. the distinctive features of a given area of intellectual activity, regarded as an integrated wholethe landscape of the European imagination
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adjective
  1. printing
    1. (of a publication or an illustration in a publication) of greater width than heightCompare portrait (def. 3)
    2. (of a page) carrying an illustration or table printed at right angles to the normal text
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verb
  1. (tr) to improve the natural features of (a garden, park, etc), as by creating contoured features and planting trees
  2. (intr) to work as a landscape gardener
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Word Origin

C16 landskip (originally a term in painting), from Middle Dutch lantscap region; related to Old English landscipe tract of land, Old High German lantscaf region
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Word Origin and History for landscape

n.

c.1600, "painting representing natural scenery," from Dutch landschap, from Middle Dutch landscap "region," from land "land" (see land) + -scap "-ship, condition" (see -ship). Originally introduced as a painters' term. Old English had cognate landscipe, and cf. Old High German lantscaf, German Landschaft, Old Norse landskapr. Meaning "tract of land with its distinguishing characteristics" is from 1886.

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v.

"to lay out lawns, gardens, etc., plant trees for the sake of beautification," by 1916, from landscape (n). Related: Landscaped; landscaping.

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