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Webster 1913 Edition

Landscape

Land′scape

,
Noun.
[Formerly written also
landskip
.]
[D.
landschap
;
land
land +
-schap
, equiv. to E.
-schip
; akin to G.
landschaft
, Sw.
landskap
, Dan.
landskab
. See
Land
,
and
-schip
.]
1.
A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
2.
A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. Compare
seascape
.
3.
The pictorial aspect of a country.
The
landscape
of his native country had taken hold on his heart.
Macaulay.
Landscape gardening
,
The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect.

Webster 1828 Edition

Landscape

LAND'SCAPE

, n.
1.
A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including mountains, rivers, lakes, and whatever the land contains.
- Whilst the landscape round it measures, russet lawns and fallows gray, where the nibbling flocks do stray.
2.
A picture, exhibiting the form of a district of country, as far as the eye can reach, or a particular extent of land and the objects it contains, or its various scenery.
3.
The view or prospect of a district of country.

Definition 2024

landscape

landscape

English

Landscape painting

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Noun

Landscape layout for printing

landscape ‎(plural landscapes)

  1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
  2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.
  3. The pictorial aspect of a country.
  4. (printing) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
  5. A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
  6. (figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenario
    The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years

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landscape ‎(third-person singular simple present landscapes, present participle landscaping, simple past and past participle landscaped)

  1. Create or maintain a landscape.

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Etymology

From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from Old English landscipe, landsceap ‎(“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”), Swedish landskap ‎(“landscape, scenery, province”), Icelandic landskapur ‎(“countryside”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlandskeɪp/

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