landscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlan(d)skeɪp/
ipa: /ˈlæn(d)skɪp/
Forms: form: landscapes
form: landskip
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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: [...]
ref: 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:
text: Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.
ref: 1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48:
text: Its steel helped build America, from the skyscrapers dotting city landscapes to the cars speeding down highways, to the appliances inside millions of homes.
ref: 2025 June 13, Luciana Lopez and Chris Isidore, “US Steel and Nippon Steel say Trump has approved their partnership”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
examples: text: The rolling Chocolate Hills of Bohol in the Philippines could easily be mistaken for a child’s landscape drawing.
ref: 2025 April 22, Joe Minihane, “24 of the world’s most unusual landscapes”, in CNN:
glosses: A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen.
examples: text: In light of such conceptualisations of the power of linguistic landscapes, we set out to examine the connection between the visual landscape and the spoken landscape in our institution[.]
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 2:
glosses: A sociological aspect of a physical area.
examples: text: The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
ref: 1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: 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.
glosses: The pictorial aspect of a country.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
printing
publishing
sciences
glosses: a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
glosses: A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
examples: text: The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years
glosses: a situation that is presented, a scenario
Synonyms: word: landscape
word: outlook
word: panorama
word: perspective
word: prospect
word: scene
word: scenery
word: terrain
word: view
Hypernyms: word: sight
Hyponyms: word: beachscape
word: blandscape
word: builtscape
word: chimneyscape
word: cliffscape
word: desertscape
word: dryscape
word: dunescape
word: forestscape
word: factoryscape
word: farmscape
word: fieldscape
word: flatscape
word: greenspace
word: harborscape
word: hillscape
word: lakescape
word: lawnscape
word: lavascape
word: marshscape
word: naturescape
word: meadowscape
word: moonscape
word: mudscape
word: nightscape
word: offscape
word: planetscape
word: poolscape
word: rainscape
word: rockscape
word: roofscape
word: sandscape
word: snowscape
word: streamscape
word: streetscape
word: treescape
word: urbanscape
word: valleyscape
word: vista
word: waterscape
word: weedscape
word: woodscape
Meronyms: word: landform
word: hill
word: mountain
word: valley
word: river
word: lake
word: building
word: road
Derived terms: blandscape
brandscape
English landscape garden
English landscape park
fitness landscape
isoscape
landscape architect
landscape architecture
landscape connectedness
landscape connectivity
landscape gardener
landscape gardening
landscape genetics
landscaper
landscapey
landscapism
landscapist
landscapity
linguistic landscape
microlandscape
office landscape
palaeolandscape
paleolandscape
relandscape
-scape