landscaping

[land-skeyp] Origin

land·scape

[land-skeyp] noun, verb, land·scaped, land·scap·ing.
noun
1.
a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
2.
a picture representing natural inland or coastal scenery.
3.
Fine Arts. the category of aesthetic subject matter in which natural scenery is represented.
4.
Obsolete. a panoramic view of scenery; vista.
verb (used with object)
5.
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.
6.
to improve the landscape of.

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Landscaping is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
verb (used without object)
7.
to do landscape gardening as a profession.

Origin:
1590–1600; 1925–30 for def. 6; < Dutch landschap; cognate with Old English landsceap, landscipe; akin to German Landschaft. See land, -ship

re·land·scape, verb, re·land·scaped, re·land·scap·ing.


1. view, scenery, vista, prospect.

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landscaping
1930, from landscape in a verbal sense of "to lay out and improve natural land" (1927, Amer.Eng.).
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