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landscape
[ land-skeyp ]
noun
- a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- a picture representing natural inland or coastal scenery.
- Fine Arts. the category of aesthetic subject matter in which natural scenery is represented.
- Obsolete. a panoramic view of scenery; vista.
verb (used with object)
- 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.
- to improve the landscape of.
verb (used without object)
- to do landscape gardening as a profession.
adjective
- Digital Technology. relating to or producing horizontal, sideways orientation of computer or other digital output, with lines of data parallel to the two longer sides of a page or screen. Compare portrait ( def 3 ).
landscape
/ ˈlændˌskeɪp /
noun
- an extensive area of land regarded as being visually distinct
ugly slagheaps dominated the landscape
- a painting, drawing, photograph, etc, depicting natural scenery
- the genre including such pictures
- ( as modifier )
landscape painter
- the distinctive features of a given area of intellectual activity, regarded as an integrated whole
the landscape of the European imagination
adjective
- printing
- (of a publication or an illustration in a publication) of greater width than height Compare portrait
- (of a page) carrying an illustration or table printed at right angles to the normal text
verb
- tr to improve the natural features of (a garden, park, etc), as by creating contoured features and planting trees
- intr to work as a landscape gardener
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Other Words From
- re·landscape verb relandscaped relandscaping
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Word History and Origins
Origin of landscape1
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Example Sentences
She had been, he says, the backbone of their family and losing her shifted their entire emotional landscape.
We have reached a tipping point where mega donors completely dominate the landscape.
Shrubs and small trees dot a parched landscape along the road from Turbat to the border.
But in a television landscape still so afraid of showing kids that LGBT people exist, it still feels like a missed opportunity.
It has changed lives, and been the home of the most landscape-changing campaigning groups.
John Wilson, a celebrated landscape and marine painter, died at Folkstone, aged 81.
Many adults assume that a child can look at a landscape as they look at it, taking in the whole picturesque effect.
Richard Wilson died; an English landscape painter of great merit.
In a springtime landscape a young peasant girl is seated beneath a tree, looking before her over a sunlit plain.
Here again we have the landscape of Lorraine and the eternal and infinitely varied theme of rural labour.
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