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Noun: landscape  'lan(d),skeyp
  1. An expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
    "The painter captured the rolling hills and forests in his landscape"
     
  2. Painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery
    "The museum exhibited a collection of 19th-century landscape paintings"
     
  3. A genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery
    "The museum's collection included several beautiful landscape paintings by Turner";
    - landscape painting
     
  4. An extensive mental viewpoint
    "the political landscape looks bleak without a change of administration"; "we changed the landscape for solving the problem of payroll inequity"
     
  5. (printing) printing orientation where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
    "The brochure was printed in landscape format"
Verb: landscape  'lan(d),skeyp
  1. (gardening) do landscape gardening
    "My sons landscapes for corporations and earns a good living"
     
  2. (gardening) embellish with plants
    "Let's landscape the yard"

Derived forms: landscaping, landscapes, landscaped

Type of: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, fancify, garden, genre, grace, ornament, outlook, painting, picture, point of view, scenery, slant, stand, standpoint, viewpoint

Encyclopedia: Landscape, Horse on the Road