Definition of 'landscape'
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense landscapes
, present participle landscaping
, past tense, past participle landscaped
1. variable noun
The landscape is everything you can see when you look across an area of land, including hills, rivers, buildings, trees, and plants.
countryside 2. countable noun
4. verb
If an area of land is landscaped, it is changed to make it more attractive, for example by adding streams or ponds and planting trees and bushes.
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landscape in British English
noun
1.
an extensive area of land regarded as being visually distinct
ugly slagheaps dominated the landscape
4.
the landscape of the European imagination
adjective
5. printing
a. Compare portrait (sense 3)
b.
(of a page) carrying an illustration or table printed at right angles to the normal
text
verb
6. (transitive)
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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
Word Frequency
landscape in American English
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈlandˌscaped or ˈlandˌscaping
verb intransitive
5.
to work as a landscape architect or gardener
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Derived forms
landscaper (ˈlandˌscaper)
noun
Word origin
17th-c. art borrowing (cf. easel, lay figure) < Du landschap < land, land + -schap, -ship: earlier also landskip, akin to OE landscipe, Ger landschaftWord Frequency
landscape in American English
(ˈlændˌskeip) (verb -scaped, -scaping)
noun
1.
2.
a picture representing natural inland or coastal scenery
transitive verb
5.
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
6.
to improve the landscape of
intransitive verb
SYNONYMS 1. view, scenery, vista, prospect.7.
to do landscape gardening as a profession
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British English: landscape
/ˈlændˌskeɪp/ NOUN
The landscape is everything that you can see when you look across an area of land, including hills, rivers, buildings, and trees.
...the beautiful landscape.
- American English: landscape /ˈlændskeɪp/
- Arabic: مَنْظَرٌ طَبِيعِيٌّ
- Brazilian Portuguese: paisagem
- Chinese: 风景
- Croatian: krajolik
- Czech: krajina
- Danish: landskab
- Dutch: landschap
- European Spanish: paisaje
- Finnish: maisema
- French: paysage
- German: Landschaft
- Greek: τοπίο
- Italian: paesaggio
- Japanese: 風景
- Korean: 경관 경치
- Norwegian: landskap
- Polish: krajobraz
- European Portuguese: paisagem
- Romanian: peisaj
- Russian: ландшафт
- Latin American Spanish: paisaje
- Swedish: landskap
- Thai: ภูมิประเทศ, ภูมิทัศน์
- Turkish: manzara
- Ukrainian: ландшафт
- Vietnamese: phong cảnh
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