landscape

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
2. (countable, uncountable) A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen.
3. (countable, uncountable) A sociological aspect of a physical area.
4. (countable, uncountable) 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.
5. (countable, uncountable) The pictorial aspect of a country.
6. (uncountable) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
7. (countable, uncountable) A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
8. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) a situation that is presented, a scenario

Verb

To create or maintain a landscape.

Synonyms

scenery

view

scene

panorama

sight

landscape painting

prospect

vista

outlook

terrain

topography

hills and rivers

rivers and mountains

clouds and smoke

natural scenery

view of natural scenery

aspect

landscape morphology

beauty-spot

illustration

imagery

layout

natural area

perspective

picture

scenes

sight-seeing

Translations

paysage

paesaggio

Landschaft

paisaje

paisagem

landschap

paisatge

τοπίο

manzara

Querformat

Anblick

panorama

vue

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlan(d)skeɪp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: *landschippe

Inherited from Old English: landsċipe

Cognate with Scots: landskape

Cognate with Western Frisian: lânskip

Cognate with Low German: landschop

Cognate with German: Landschaft

Cognate with Danish: landskab

Cognate with Swedish: landskap

Cognate with Icelandic: landskapur

In summary

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.

Sentences

It is a romantic landscape garden designed in the English style .