landscape
/ˈlan(d)skeɪp/
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obsolete/ˈlæn(d)skɪp/
landscape noun: a portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
Noun
landscape (countable and uncountable, plural landscapes)
- A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
- 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: [...]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...
- 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.1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48
- A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen.
- The rolling Chocolate Hills of Bohol in the Philippines could easily be mistaken for a child’s landscape drawing.2025 April 22, Joe Minihane, “24 of the world’s most unusual landscapes”, in CNN
- A sociological aspect of a physical area.
- 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[.]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
- 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 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...1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71
- 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
- The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years
Verb
landscape (third-person singular simple present landscapes, present participle landscaping, simple past and past participle landscaped)
- To create or maintain a landscape.
landscape meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
landscape in Hindi
- portion of land or territory
- भूदृश्य bhūdŕśya, परिदृश्य paridŕśya, मंज़र manzar, नज़ारा nazārā
landscape in Tamil
- நிலக்காட்சி, இயற்கை நிலக்காட்சி, இயற்கைக்காட்சி, நிலத் தோற்றம், நிலவெளி, நிலப்படம்
landscape in Marathi
- भूदृश्य
landscape in Urdu
- portion of land or territory
- مَنْظَر manzar, نَظارَہ nazāra, مَنْظَرَہ manzara
More languagesFewer languages
- landscape in Bengali
- ভূদৃশ্য bhudriśśo
- landscape in Telugu
- ప్రకృతి దృశ్యం, ల్యాండ్స్కేప్
- landscape in Malayalam
- ഭൂവിധാനം, ഭൂദൃശ്യം, പ്രകൃതിദൃശ്യം, നാട്ടിൻ പുറഭൂഭാഗചിത്രം
- landscape in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಕೃತಿ ದೃಶ್ಯ, ಭೂ ದೃಶ್ಯ, ನೆಲಗಾಣ್ಕೆ, ಭೂದೃಶ್ಯ
- landscape in Punjabi
- ਲੈਂਡਸਕੇਪ
- landscape in Gujarati
- લેન્ડસ્કેપ
- landscape in Odia
- ଦୃଶ୍ୟ druśya
- landscape in Nepali
- भूदृश्य
- landscape in Pashto
- منظره manzará
- landscape in Arabic
- مَنْظَر طَبِيعِيّ manẓar ṭabīʕiyy, مَنْظَر manẓar
- landscape in Malay
- landskap
- landscape in Indonesian
- lanskap
- landscape in Thai
- ทิวทัศน์ tiu-tát, ทัศนียภาพ tát-sà-nii-yá-pâap, ภูมิทัศน์ puu-mí-tát, ภูมิประเทศ puu-mí-bprà-têet
- landscape in Vietnamese
- phong cảnh, cảnh sắc
- landscape in Myanmar
- ရှုခင်း hru.hkang:
Examples of landscape in a sentence
- The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.
- Her song enraptured the audience with vivid images of the Scandinavian landscapes.
- The director asked to zoom out for a wider shot of the landscape.
Synonyms of landscape
Antonyms
Forms of landscape
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | landscapes |
| alternative form (obsolete) | landskip |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | landscapes |
| present participle | landscaping |
| past participle | landscaped |
| past | landscaped |
Origin of landscape
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.
Words formed from landscape
- 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
Phrases with landscape
Questions about landscape
- What does landscape mean?
- Landscape means a portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
- What is landscape in Hindi?
- Landscape in Hindi is भूदृश्य (bhūdŕśya), परिदृश्य (paridŕśya), मंज़र (manzar). See Landscape meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is landscape?
- Landscape can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce landscape?
- Landscape is pronounced /ˈlan(d)skeɪp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of landscape?
- The plural of landscape is landscapes.
Words near landscape in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: landscape (page history and authors); landscape (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); landscape (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); landscape (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); landscape (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); landscape (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); landscape (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); landscape (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଦୃଶ୍ୟ (Odia) (page history and authors); landscape (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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