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To landscape is defined as to improve the appearance of land by using carefully designed gardens, bushes or other materials.

(verb)

An example of landscape is when you plant flowers and bushes in your yard.

The definition of landscape is the features of a given area of land, especially when the area of land has been improved by carefully designed planting and arrangement.

(noun)

An example of landscape is a green and hilly forest, which has a lush landscape.
An example of landscape is the plans, shrubs and bushes that have been planted to make a house look nicer.

See landscape in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a picture representing a section of natural, inland scenery, as of prairie, woodland, mountains, etc.
the branch of painting, photography, etc. dealing with such pictures
an expanse of natural scenery considered in terms of its visual effect

Origin: 17th-c. art borrowing (cf. easel, lay figure) < Du landschap < land, land + -schap, -ship: earlier also landskip, akin to OE landscipe, Ger landschaft

transitive verb landscaped, landscaping

to change the natural features of (a plot of ground) so as to make it more attractive, as by adding lawns, trees, bushes, etc.

intransitive verb

to work as a landscape architect or gardener

Related Forms:

landscaper noun

See landscape in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

An expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view: a desert landscape.
A picture depicting an expanse of scenery.
The branch of art dealing with the representation of natural scenery.
The aspect of the land characteristic of a particular region: a bleak New England winter landscape.
Grounds that have been landscaped: liked the house especially for its landscape.
An extensive mental view; an interior prospect: “They occupy the whole landscape of my thought” (James Thurber).

adjective

Of or relating to a landscape or landscapes: landscape painting.
Of or relating to landscaping: a nursery offering landscape services.
Of or relating to the orientation of a page such that the shorter side runs from top to bottom: printed the document in landscape mode in order to accommodate the wide columns of a table.

verb land·scaped, land·scap·ing, land·scapes

verb, transitive

To adorn or improve (a section of ground) by contouring and by planting flowers, shrubs, or trees.

verb, intransitive

To arrange grounds artistically as a profession.

Origin:

Origin: Dutch landschap

Origin: , from Middle Dutch landscap, region

Origin: : land, land; see lendh- in Indo-European roots

Origin: + -scap, state, condition (collective suff.)

Related Forms:

landˈscapˌer noun

Word History: Landscape, first recorded in 1598, was borrowed as a painters' term from Dutch during the 16th century, when Dutch artists were pioneering the landscape genre. The Dutch word landschap had earlier meant simply “region, tract of land” but had acquired the artistic sense, which it brought over into English, of “a picture depicting scenery on land.” Interestingly, 34 years pass after the first recorded use of landscape in English before the word is used of a view or vista of natural scenery. This delay suggests that people were first introduced to landscapes in paintings and then saw landscapes in real life.

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