landscape
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
printing
publishing
sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: landscapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: landskip
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: landscapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: landscaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: landscaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: landscaped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: landskip
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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: [...]
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.
Its steel helped build America, from the skyscrapers dotting city landscapes to the cars speeding down highways, to the appliances inside millions of homes.
gloss: A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The rolling Chocolate Hills of Bohol in the Philippines could easily be mistaken for a child’s landscape drawing.
gloss: A sociological aspect of a physical area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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[.]
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The pictorial aspect of a country.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: a situation that is presented, a scenario
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years
gloss: To create or maintain a landscape.
pos: verb
Synonyms: landscape
outlook
panorama
perspective
prospect
scene
scenery
terrain
view
Antonyms: portrait
Derived words: 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
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