landscape

Meanings

Noun

• A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
• 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.
• 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

Verb

• To create or maintain a landscape.

Related

Opposite words

• portrait

Origin

• From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from Old English landsċipe, landsċeap, equivalent to land + -ship; in some senses from Dutch landschap ("region, district, province, landscape"), from , lantscap, from , *landskapi. Cognate with Scots landskape, landskep, landskip, West Frisian lânskip ("landscape"), Low German landschop ("landscape, district"), German Landschaft ("landscape, countryside, scenery"), Swedish landskap ("landscape, scenery, province"), Icelandic landskapur ("countryside").