LANDSCAPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does landscape mean? 

• LANDSCAPE (noun)
  The noun LANDSCAPE has 4 senses:

1. an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view

2. painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery

3. a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery

4. an extensive mental viewpoint

  Familiarity information: LANDSCAPE used as a noun is uncommon.

• LANDSCAPE (verb)
  The verb LANDSCAPE has 2 senses:

1. embellish with plants

2. do landscape gardening

  Familiarity information: LANDSCAPE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDSCAPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("landscape" is a kind of...):

scenery (the appearance of a place)

Derivation:

landscapist (someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively)

landscapist (someone who paints landscapes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("landscape" is a kind of...):

painting; picture (graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface)

Derivation:

landscapist (someone who paints landscapes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

landscape; landscape painting

Hypernyms ("landscape" is a kind of...):

genre (a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique)

Derivation:

landscapist (someone who paints landscapes)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An extensive mental viewpoint

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

we changed the landscape for solving the problem of payroll inequity

Hypernyms ("landscape" is a kind of...):

point of view; stand; standpoint; viewpoint (a mental position from which things are viewed)

• LANDSCAPE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they landscape    ... he / she / it landscapes   
Past simple: landscaped   
Past participle: landscaped   
-ing form: landscaping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Embellish with plants

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

Let's landscape the yard

Hypernyms (to "landscape" is one way to...):

adorn; beautify; decorate; embellish; grace; ornament (make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.)

Verb group:

landscape (do landscape gardening)

Domain category:

gardening; horticulture (the cultivation of plants)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

landscaping (a garden laid out for esthetic effect)

landscapist (someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Do landscape gardening

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

My sons landscapes for corporations and earns a good living

Hypernyms (to "landscape" is one way to...):

garden (work in the garden)

Verb group:

landscape (embellish with plants)

Domain category:

gardening; horticulture (the cultivation of plants)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

landscaping (working as a landscape gardener)

landscapist (someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively)

 Context examples 

"The region's savanna landscapes provide critical resources for people and other animals," said Fox.

(Land cover change in Botswana savannas: Don't blame the elephants, National Science Foundation)

To see them dance was 'quite a landscape', to use a Teddyism.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

For example, the number of species scales with the area of a landscape.

(Researchers find that Earth may be home to 1 trillion species, NSF)

The researchers treated the landscape as a template for Mars and examined the organic matter preserved in rock deposits nearby.

(Red Planet May Have Harbored Life in Past, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Some other process must be generating the mountainous landscape.

(The Icy Mountains of Pluto, NASA)

New images of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft provide more clues about its mysterious bright spots, and also reveal a pyramid-shaped peak towering over a relatively flat landscape.

(Ceres Spots Continue to Mystify in Latest Dawn Images, NASA)

Edith Nelson met the unexpected at every turn of the trail, and she trained her vision so that she saw in the landscape, not the obvious, but the concealed.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The next steps are to measure the effects of specific landscape changes.

(American kestrels, most common predatory birds in U.S., can reduce need for pesticide use, National Science Foundation)

All was quiet as in a dream landscape.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then, on one side and the other, she ran along the base of the wall to where its abrupt bulk merged from the softer-lined landscape.

(White Fang, by Jack London)