Landscape

Definition: Landscape

Landscape

Noun

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.

Verb

1. Embellish with plants.

2. Do landscape gardening.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "landscape" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Note: Landscape \Land"scape\, noun. [Formerly written also landskip.]. (references)

Avian

Environment

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Landscape

Agriculture

Noun: agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming; georgics, geoponics; tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage; horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture; landscape gardening; viticulture.

Artist

Historical painter, landscape painter, marine painter, flower painter, portrait painter, miniature painter, miniaturist, scene painter, sign painter, coach painter; engraver; Apelles; sculptor, carver, chaser, modeler, figuriste, statuary; Phidias, Praxiteles; Royal Academician.

Beauty

Beautifying; landscaping, landscape gardening; decoration; calisthenics.

Painting

Landscape, seapiece; view, scene, prospect; panorama, diorama; still life.

Historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting; landscape painting, marine painting; still life, flower painting, scene painting; scenography.

The Past

Phrase: time was; the time has been, the time hath been; you can't go home again; fuimus Troes; fruit Ilium; hoc erat in more majorum; "O call back yesterday, bid time return"; tempi passati; "the eternal landscape of the past"; ultimus Romanorum; "what's past is prologue"; "whose yesterdays look backward with a smile".

Crosswords: Landscape

Either you're part of the problem or you're part of the solution or you're just part of the landscape. (Ronin; writing credit: J.D. Zeik)

We're kicking off our fun old fashion family Christmas by heading out into the country in the old front-wheel drive sleigh to embrace the frosty majesty of the winter landscape and select that most important of Christmas symbols (Christmas Vacation; writing credit: John Hughes)

I have to traverse my own landscape. (The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love; writing credit: Maria Maggenti)

Computer Landscape (1971)

Figures in a Landscape (1970)

Canadian Landscape (1941)

Landscape (2000)

Lunar Landscape (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Landscape Design Market in Japan: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape (Abbeville Modern Art Movements) (reference)

• Biotic and Abiotic Processes in Eastside Ecosystems: The Effects of Management on Plant and Community Ecology, and on Stand and Landscape Vegetation (reference)

• Acrylic Landscape Painting Techniques (reference)

• Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley: A Guide to the Adena and Ohio Hopewell Sites (Guides to the American Landscape) (reference)

• The Adirondacks: Wild Island of Hope (Creating the North American Landscape) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• American Nursery & Landscape Association Update (reference)

• Landscape & Irrigation (reference)

• Landscape And Urban Planning (reference)

• Landscape Australia (reference)

• Landscape Journal (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Art of Landscape Design (reference)

• Poetry of Landscape (reference)

• Watercolor- painting the landscape (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• George Crumb: A Hanted Landscape; William Schuman: Three Colloquies for Horn and Orchestra (reference)

• American Landscape (reference)

• Quiet River Landscape (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Bahama Sounds Patio Tunes(TM) Rock Landscape Speakers (PTL100-G) (reference)

• CAD 3D / Landscape Design 3D (Jewel Case) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Shark Corp 10-2337 SharkSaw Landscape Saw (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shows poster of artistically rendered landscape scene with woman standing in foreground holding a sword - white light shines down on woman with slogans: "Cancer Is Curable," "Enlist In The Women's Field Army," "American Society For The Control Of Cancer". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Shows photo of NCI building and some surrounding landscape taken in 1939. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a panoramic portrait of a vast, sculpted landscape ... Credit: NASA.

Frosty white water ice clouds and swirling orange dust storms above a vivid rusty landscape ... Credit: NASA.

This desolate landscape is part of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range, on the border between the Coahuila and Nuevo Leon provinces of Mexico. Credit: NASA.

This scar on an arid landscape is the dry riverbed of the Ghadamis River in the Tinrhert Hamada Mountains near Ghadamis, Libya. Credit: NASA.

Whistler's Anacapa Island engraving from a William B. McMurtrie sketch The seagulls were added to give life to an otherwise sterile landscape. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Adelie penquins on the march across an icy landscape. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Glacially scoured landscape in Glacier Bay. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Eagle rays - Aetobatus narinari - flying in formation across a reef landscape. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Wherever I sat, there I might live, and the landscape radiated from me accordingly

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Giant cooperatives (communes) were formed, and "backyard factories" dotted the Chinese landscape. (references)

Major cities and businesses dot the countryside in a landscape which features no single business center. (references)

The listing should enhance the transformation of the former government department into a world class telecommunications company in a globally competitive landscape. (references)

Children

India

In May Kul Chandra Gautam, the Deputy Director of UNICEF, stated during a meeting of regional senior government leaders, that the "human landscape in our region continues to be characterized by poverty, underdevelopment, discrimination, environmental degradation, social upheaval, conflict and natural disasters. (references)

Economic History

Benin

Two types of landscape predominate in the south. (references)

Hungary

Violence is not part of the traditional political landscape in Hungary. (references)

Political Economy

Bangladesh

However, on the domestic political landscape, political demonstrations and general strikes (hartals) regularly disrupted business operations over the past five years. (references)

UNITED KINGDOM

The relationship with Europe also dominates the economic landscape of the UK, particularly on the question of whether the UK should adopt the single European currency. (references)

Botswana

Another prominent development of Botswana's political landscape is regional, as Gaborone is the seat of the Secretariat of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "landscape": alpine landscape ♦ blot on the landscape ♦ cultivated landscape ♦ cultural landscape ♦ draw a landscape ♦ landscape architect ♦ landscape architecture ♦ landscape changes ♦ landscape design ♦ landscape format ♦ landscape gardener ♦ landscape gardening ♦ landscape painter ♦ landscape painting ♦ sympathetic landscape ♦ urban landscape. Additional references.

Beginning with "landscape": landscape-abstractionists, Landscape-as-real-estate, landscape-conscious, landscape-forming, landscape-gardening, landscape-inspired, landscape-mode, Landscape-movement, landscape-orientated, landscape-pain, landscape-sensitive, Landscape-space, landscape-this.

Ending with "landscape": garden-landscape, soil-landscape.

Afrikaans

landskap (scenery). (various references)

Albanian

zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bespangle, bespread, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, festoon, flatter, Flavor, flavour, garnish, gild the pill, glorify, inlay, intersperse, ornament, pink, prettify, set with, smarten up, stud, touch up, trap, trick out, trim, water down), tablo (painting, panel, picture, scene, spectacle, tableau), peizazh (scenery), pamje (air, aspect, face, likeness, look, make, mien, mode, outlook, outside, physiognomy, presence, prospect, rig, scene, scenery, semblance, shape, sight, spectacle, view, visage, vista). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فن التصوير الطبيعي, ‏مناظر الطبيعة, ‏مناظر البساتين, ‏صور الطبيعة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

пейзаж (picture, prospect, scene, scenery). (various references)

Chinese 

风景 (scenery, scenic), 風景 (scenery), 景色 (scene, scenery, view), 山水 . (various references)

Czech

krajina (country, countryside, land-scape, region, scenery, side). (various references)

Danish

landskab (scenery). (various references)

Dutch

landschap (scenery). (various references)

Esperanto

pejzaĝo (scenery). (various references)

Faeroese

landslag (scenery). (various references)

Farsi 

منظره (Object, Outlook, Perspective, Picture, Prospect, Scene, Scenery, Sight, Spectacle, View, Vision), چشم انداز (Lookout, Outlook, Overlook, Panorama, Perspective, Prospect, Scene, Scenery, View, Vista), خاکبرداری وخیابان بندی کردن , دورنما (Lookout, Outlook, Prospect, Vista), بامنظره تزءین کردن . (various references)

Finnish

maisema (scenery). (various references)

French

paysage. (various references)

Frisian

lânskip (scenery). (various references)

German

Landschaft (countryside, prospect, scene, scenery, territory). (various references)

Greek 

τοπίο (scene, scenery). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעבוד בגינת נוי, תמונת נוף (tableau), נוף (elevation, height, panorama, prospect, scene, scenery, view, vista). (various references)

Hungarian

tájkép (scenery), táj (clime, land, quarter, scene, scenery). (various references)

Indonesian

pemandangan (aspect, outlook, scene, view, vista), bentang. (various references)

Italian

paesaggio (panorama, scenery, view). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

雲煙 (clouds and smoke), 絶佳　 (superb view), ランゲルハンス島 (athletic-style shirt, bag, inside-the-park home run, isle of Langerhans, knapsack, lance, Lancel, lancer, land, landing, landing bahn, landmark, LANDSAT, lantern, lanthanum, Lanvin, launch, launcher, laundry, lingerie, lunch, lunch set, luncheon, lunchtime, lunchtime concert, meeting, pensioneer, random, random sampling, rumble seat, runner, runner's high, running, running cost, running home run, running homer, running stock, running vest, run-through, runtime, satchel with back straps, tank top), 景色　 (scene, scenery), 景色 (scene, scenery), 江山 (rivers and mountains), 山水 (hills and rivers). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ランドスケープ , さんすい (hills and rivers, irrigate, sprinkle water over, sprinkling water), うんえん (clouds and smoke), こうざん (alpine, high mountain, mine, rivers and mountains), けしき (scene, scenery). (various references)

Korean 

조경. (various references)

Manx

reayrt cheerey, jannoo reayrt cheerey, cheer yalloo. (various references)

Norwegian

landskap. (various references)

Papiamen

paisahe (scenery). (various references)

Pig Latin

andscapelay.(various references)

Portuguese

paisagem (panorama, prospect, scenery, view). (various references)

Romanian

privelişte (lookout, outlook, scenery, sea-scape, sight, view), peisaj, peisagistic, peisagist (landscape painter, landscape-pain), décor (background, décor, decoration, embellishment, mise en scene, ornament, scene, scenery, sets). (various references)

Russian 

ландшафт (country). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slika predela, predeo (region, tract), pejzažni, pejzaž (scenery), kraj (beside, by, corner, end, finish, heelpiece, lappet, last, parts, tail, tail end, termination, terminus). (various references)

Spanish

paisaje (scene, scenery). (various references)

Swedish

landskap (province, scenary, scenery). (various references)

Turkish

peyzaj (Paysage), manzara (lookout, panorama, Paysage, prospect, raree show, scene, scenery, scenic, sight, spectacle, view, vista), bahçe düzenlemek. (various references)

Turkmen 

landshaft (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

упорядковувати ділянку, ландшафт, пейзажний живопис, пейзаж (scape, scenery). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phong cảnh. (various references)

landscap. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "landscape": landscaped, landscaper, landscapers, landscapes. (additional references)

Words ending with "landscape": relandscape. (additional references)

Words containing "landscape": relandscaped, relandscapes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Landscape" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: landcsape, landsale, landscapey, landschape, lanscape, sandscape. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: candelas, capelans, scalepan.

-2 letters: alcades, anlaces, calends, canaled, canapes, candela, candles, capelan, clasped, decanal, enclasp, palaced, palaces, scalade, scalped, scandal, spancel.

-3 letters: alands, alcade, anlace, apneal, apneas, ascend, calesa, canals, canape, candle, clades, cleans, dances, decals, elands, ladens, lanced, lances, lapsed, naleds, padles, paeans, paesan, palace, pandas, panels, pascal, pecans, pedals, placed, places.

+1 letter: landscaped, landscaper, landscapes.

+2 letters: landscapers, relandscape.

+3 letters: encapsulated, relandscaped, relandscapes.

+4 letters: relandscaping.

+5 letters: encyclopaedias, psychoanalyzed.