Definition of LANDSCAPE

landscape

Plural: landscapes

Noun

  • an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
  • painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery
  • a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery
  • an extensive mental viewpoint
    • "the political landscape looks bleak without a change of administration"
    • "we changed the landscape for solving the problem of payroll inequity"
  • A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
  • A sociological aspect of a physical area.
  • 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.
  • The pictorial aspect of a country.
  • a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
  • A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
  • a situation that is presented, a scenario

Verb

  • embellish with plants
    • "Let's landscape the yard"
  • do landscape gardening
    • "My sons landscapes for corporations and earns a good living"
  • To create or maintain a landscape.

Examples

  • "The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years"

Origin / 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”); 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”), Danish landskab (“landscape, countryside”), Swedish landskap (“landscape, scenery, province”), Icelandic landskapur (“countryside”). By surface analysis, land + -ship.

Synonyms

landscape, landscape painting, outlook, panorama, perspective, prospect, scene, scenery, terrain, view

Antonyms

portrait

Scrabble Score: 14

landscape is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
landscape is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
landscape is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

landscape is a valid Words With Friends word