landscapes

Noun

landscape (countable and uncountable, plural landscapes)

1. 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...
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. The pictorial aspect of a country.
6. (uncountable) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides

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