landscape

Meaning

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

landscape

scenery

view

scene

panorama

sight

landscape painting

prospect

vista

outlook

terrain

hills and rivers

rivers and mountains

clouds and smoke

perspective

topography

sight-seeing

view of natural scenery

illustration

landscape morphology

imagery

natural scenery

beauty-spot

aspect

picture

scenes

natural area

layout

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlan(d)skeɪp/

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”), 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”), Danish landskab (“landscape, countryside”), Swedish landskap (“landscape, scenery, province”), Icelandic landskapur (“countryside”).