landscape
A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
Noun 4 meanings
A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen.
A sociological aspect of a physical area.
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.
Verb 1 meaning
To create or maintain a landscape.
Etymology
From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from Old English landsċipe, landsċeap (“region, district, tract of land”); in some senses from Dutch landschap (“region, district, province, landscape”), from Middle Dutch landscap, lantscap (“region”), from Old Dutch *landskepi, *landskapi (“region”).
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LANDSCAPE at a glance
LANDSCAPE has 9 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (L 1 + A 1 + N 1 + D 2 + S 1 + C 3 + A 1 + P 3 + E 1) and 18 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,816 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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