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 ; in some senses from Dutch landschap, from Middle Dutch landscap, lantscap ("region"), from Old Dutch *landskepi, *landskapi ("region").

• (British) IPA: /ˈlan(d)skeɪp/
• (obsolete) IPA: /ˈlæn(d)skɪp/

landscape

1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
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     Piſcat[or]. [...] [T]heſe Hills though high, bleak, and craggy, breed and feed good Beef, and Mutton above ground, and afford good ſtore of Lead within. / Viat[or]. They had need of all thoſe commodities to make amends for the ill Land-ſchape: [...]

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. (computing, printing, uncountable) 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. (figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenario

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• (antonym(s) of “printing mode”): portrait

• French: paysage
• German: Landschaft
• Italian: paesaggio, panorama
• Portuguese: paisagem, panorama, vista
• Russian: ландша́фт
• Spanish: paisaje

• Italian: paesaggio
• Portuguese: paisagem
• Russian: пейза́ж
• Spanish: paisaje

• German: Landschaft
• Italian: paesaggio
• Portuguese: paisagem
• Spanish: paisaje

• French: paysage
• German: Querformat
• Italian: orizzontale
• Portuguese: paisagem
• Russian: альбо́мная ориента́ция
• Spanish: apaisado, horizontal

• Portuguese: ambiente

• Italian: scenario, panorama

landscape (landscapes, present participle landscaping; simple past and past participle landscaped)

1. To create or maintain a landscape.