landscape

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Landscape painting

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Etymology

From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English landscipe, landsceap (region, district, tract of land), equivalent to land +‎ -ship; in some senses from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch landschap (region, district, province, landscape), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch landscap, lantscap (region), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Dutch *landskepi, *landskapi (region). Cognate with Scots landskape, landskep, landskip (landscape), West Frisian lânskip (landscape), Low German landschop (landscape, district), German Landschaft (landscape, countryside, scenery), Swedish landskap (landscape, scenery, province), Icelandic landskapur (countryside).

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Noun

Landscape layout for printing

landscape (countable and uncountable, plural landscapes)

  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 real or imaginary scene by land or sea, the main subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.
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  3. The pictorial aspect of a country.
  4. (printing, uncountable) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
  5. A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
  6. (figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenario
    The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years

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  1. Create or maintain a landscape.

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