landscape

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A wide view of an area of countryside, including its hills, fields, and other features.

   From the hilltop we admired the beautiful mountain landscape.

2. 2
   noun

   A painting or photograph that shows a view of the countryside.

   The gallery displayed several landscapes by Dutch artists.

3. 3
   noun

   The general situation in a particular area of activity.

   New technology has changed the business landscape completely.

4. 4
   verb

   To improve the appearance of an area of land by changing its design and adding plants.

   They hired a gardener to landscape the back yard.

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 (“lands…

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