landscape

[ land-skeyp ]

/ ˈlændˌskeɪp /

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noun

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.

verb (used with object), land·scaped, land·scap·ing.

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.

verb (used without object), land·scaped, land·scap·ing.

to do landscape gardening as a profession.

adjective

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).

OTHER WORDS FOR landscape

1 view, scenery, vista, prospect.

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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

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.
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The digital-media industry has increasingly sought ways to gain heft in an ad landscape dominated by Facebook and Google.
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While 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.
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The 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.
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Bartenders 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.
D.C. Cocktail Week runs through Nov. 22|Evan Caplan|November 19, 2020|Washington Blade
Herman developed his own landscaping business while in high school.
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Gavin worked two and three jobs at a time (in restaurants and landscaping) to put himself though community college.
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He was meticulous about his house, manicuring the lawn in front and desert landscaping on the side, she said.
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Lanza was known to enjoy landscaping, live music, and craft beers.
Newtown Victims: Dawn Hochsprung, Vicki Soto & More|Nina Strochlic|December 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Some former factory owners have even branched out into “green landscaping.”
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Each child then drew a rectangle on paper and made an original plan for landscaping.
Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools|Virginia McGaw
Along 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 Huntley
The 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 Fithian
He 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 Willis
It 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

landscape

/ (ˈlændˌskeɪp) /

noun

an extensive area of land regarded as being visually distinctugly 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 wholethe landscape of the European imagination

adjective

printing

(of a publication or an illustration in a publication) of greater width than heightCompare portrait (def. 3)
(of a page) carrying an illustration or table printed at right angles to the normal text

verb

(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

Word Origin for landscape

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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