landscape
nounverbcommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈlan(d)skeɪp//
- //ˈlæn(d)skɪp//
A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
noun
- 1
A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
Piſcat[or]. [...] [T]heſe Hills though high, bleak, and craggy, breed and feed good Beef, and Mutton above ground, and afford good ſtore of Lead within. / Viat[or]. They had need of all thoſe commodities to make amends for the ill Land-ſchape: [...]
Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.
Its steel helped build America, from the skyscrapers dotting city landscapes to the cars speeding down highways, to the appliances inside millions of homes.
- 2
A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen.
The rolling Chocolate Hills of Bohol in the Philippines could easily be mistaken for a child’s landscape drawing.
- 3
A sociological aspect of a physical area.
In light of such conceptualisations of the power of linguistic landscapes, we set out to examine the connection between the visual landscape and the spoken landscape in our institution[.]
- 4
A picture representing a real or imaginary scene by land or sea, the main subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water, etc.
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The pictorial aspect of a country.
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a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
- 7
A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
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figurativea situation that is presented, a scenario
The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years
Etymology
From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from Old English landsċipe, landsċeap (“region, district, tract of land”); 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”), Danish landskab (“landscape, countryside”), Swedish landskap (“landscape, scenery, province”), Icelandic landskapur (“countryside”). By surface analysis, land + -ship.
verb
- 1
To create or maintain a landscape.
Forms
- plural
- landscapes
- past tense
- landscaped
- past participle
- landscaped
- present participle
- landscaping
- third person singular
- landscapes
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