a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
a picture representing natural inland or coastal scenery.
Fine Arts. the category of aesthetic subject matter in which natural scenery is represented.
Obsolete. a panoramic view of scenery; vista.
verb (used with object),land·scaped,land·scap·ing.
to improve the appearance of (an area of land, a highway, etc.), as by planting trees, shrubs, or grass, or altering the contours of the ground.
to improve the landscape of.
verb (used without object),land·scaped,land·scap·ing.
to do landscape gardening as a profession.
adjective
Digital Technology. relating to or producing horizontal, sideways orientation of computer or other digital output, with lines of data parallel to the two longer sides of a page or screen.Compare portrait (def. 3).
Origin of landscape
1590–1600; 1925–30 for def. 6; <Dutch landschap; cognate with Old English landsceap, landscipe; akin to German Landschaft.See land, -ship
This recipe takes a quarter of the time and keeps your landscaping intact by using a crockpot.
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He had taken a keen interest from the beginning in the building of the House and the landscaping of the grounds.
Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia|Carrie Hunter Willis
The principal difference between us and the small animals that occasionally cause Prime trouble with his landscaping is control.
Fair and Warmer|E. G. von Wald
He also, he and this friend of his, Steve Moore, were trying to found this little company of landscaping.
Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Landscaping to reproduce an idealized country scene replaced formal gardens.
Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed.|S. A. Reilly
The vogue for formality in English architecture and landscaping was mirrored in the arrangement of the Virginia estates.
Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774.|Philip Vickers Fithian
British Dictionary definitions for landscape
landscape
/ (ˈlændˌskeɪp) /
noun
an extensive area of land regarded as being visually distinctugly slagheaps dominated the landscape
a painting, drawing, photograph, etc, depicting natural scenery
the genre including such pictures
(as modifier)landscape painter
the distinctive features of a given area of intellectual activity, regarded as an integrated wholethe landscape of the European imagination
adjective
printing
(of a publication or an illustration in a publication) of greater width than heightCompare portrait (def. 3)
(of a page) carrying an illustration or table printed at right angles to the normal text
verb
(tr)to improve the natural features of (a garden, park, etc), as by creating contoured features and planting trees
(intr)to work as a landscape gardener
Word Origin for landscape
C16 landskip (originally a term in painting), from Middle Dutch lantscap region; related to Old English landscipe tract of land, Old High German lantscaf region