landscape
Pronunciation: /ˈlan(d)skeɪp/
The English word “landscape” has 9 meanings listed here.
noun
- A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
- A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen.
- A sociological aspect of a physical area.
- 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.
- The pictorial aspect of a country.
- a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
- A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
- a situation that is presented, a scenario
verb
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…
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