Landscape

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈlandskeɪp/

Alternative forms

• landskip

Origin

From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from Old English landscipe, landsceap ("region, district, tract of land"), equivalent to land + -ship; in some senses from Dutch landschap ("region, district, province, landscape"), from Middle Dutch landscap, lantscap ("region"), from Old Dutch *landskepi, *landskapi ("region"). Cognate with Scots landskape, landskep, landskip ("landscape"), West Frisian lânskip ("landscape"), Low German landschop ("landscape, district"), German Landschaft ("landscape, countryside, scenery"), Swedish landskap ("landscape, scenery, province"), Icelandic landskapur ("countryside").

Noun

1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.
3. The pictorial aspect of a country.
4. (printing) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
5. A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
6. (figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenarioThe software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years

Antonyms

• (printing mode) portrait

Meronyms

Derived terms

• landscape gardener
• landscape gardening
• -scape

Full definition of landscape

Verb

1. Create or maintain a landscape.

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