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waterscape

waterscape noun: an aquatic landscape; a view or site prominently involving water.

Noun

waterscape (plural waterscapes)

  1. An aquatic landscape; a view or site prominently involving water.
    • As early as 1898, Monet had thought of combining a series of such waterscapes into one wall-filling frieze […]2002, Lorenz Eitner, 19th century European painting: David to Cézanne

Verb

waterscape (third-person singular simple present waterscapes, present participle waterscaping, simple past and past participle waterscaped)

  1. To create an aquatic landscape.

Forms of waterscape

Noun
pluralwaterscapes
Verb
third-person singular presentwaterscapes
present participlewaterscaping
past participlewaterscaped
pastwaterscaped

Origin of waterscape

From water + -scape. Compare Middle English watershipe (“a gathering of waters”), Old English wætersċipe (“a body of water”), Old Saxon watriscapum (“watercourse, watersource”), Middle Dutch waterschap (“watercourse, waterway”) (whence Dutch waterschap).

Questions about waterscape

What does waterscape mean?
Waterscape means an aquatic landscape; a view or site prominently involving water.
What part of speech is waterscape?
Waterscape can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of waterscape?
The plural of waterscape is waterscapes.

Words near waterscape in the dictionary

  1. waters
  2. waters down
  3. waters of hydration
  4. Waters Upton
  5. waters' edges
  6. waterscape
  7. waterscaped
  8. waterscapes
  9. waterscaping
  10. watershed
  11. watershedding

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