landscape

== English == === Alternative forms === landskip (obsolete) === 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. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlan(d)skeɪp/ (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈlæn(d)skɪp/ === Noun === landscape (countable and uncountable, plural landscapes) A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features. A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen. A sociological aspect of a physical area. 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 pictorial aspect of a country. (computing, printing, uncountable) 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") (figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenario ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “printing mode”): portrait ==== Meronyms ==== See also Thesaurus:landscape ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === landscape (third-person singular simple present landscapes, present participle landscaping, simple past and past participle landscaped) To create or maintain a landscape. ==== Translations ==== === See also === dreamscape moonscape seascape skyscape === Anagrams === lap dances, lap-dances, lapdances