landscape
Etymology

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").

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

landscape

  1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
    • 1676, Charles Cotton, chapter II, in The Compleat Angler. Being Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream. Part. II., 5th edition, London: […] Richard Marriott, and Henry Brome […], →OCLC ↗, page 12 ↗:
      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
    The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of “printing mode”): portrait
Translations Translations Translations Translations Translations Translations Verb

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

  1. To create or maintain a landscape.



This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Offline English dictionary