landscape
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (4)landscapes
- an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single viewType of scenery
- painting depicting an expanse of natural sceneryType of painting, picture
- a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenerySynonyms: landscape paintingType of genre
- 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”Type of point of view, viewpoint
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Translations
Noun portion of land or territory
- Spanish
- paisaje
- French
- paysage
- German
- Landschaft
- Italian
- paesaggio
- Portuguese
- paisagem
- Turkish
- peyzaj
- Russian
- ландша́фт landšáft
- Arabic
- مَنْظَر manẓar
- Chinese
- 风景 fēngjǐng
- Japanese
- 景色 keshiki
27 more languages
- Dutch
- landschap
- Polish
- krajobraz
- Swedish
- landskap
- Greek
- τοπίο topío
- Korean
- 풍경 punggyeong
- Indonesian
- lanskap
- Vietnamese
- phong cảnh
- Hungarian
- táj
- Portuguese (PT)
- paisagem
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 風景 fēngjǐng
- Catalan
- paisatge
- Czech
- krajina
- Danish
- landskab
- Esperanto
- pejzaĝo
- Finnish
- maisema
- Georgian
- ლანდშაფტი landšapṭi
- Hebrew
- נוֹף nof
- Icelandic
- landslag
- Latvian
- ainava
- Lithuanian
- kraštovaizdis
- Norwegian
- landskap
- Romanian
- peisaj
- Scottish Gaelic
- cruth-tìre
- Serbo-Croatian
- krajolik
- Slovak
- krajina
- Swahili
- mandhari
- Yiddish
- לאַנדשאַפֿט landshaft
Noun picture representing a scene
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: D. landschap; land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. landskap, Dan. landskab. See Land, and -schip.
1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. Compare seascape.
3. The pictorial aspect of a country.
The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Landscape gardening, The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54