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landscape

lands·cape

UK/ˈlan(d)skeɪp/ US/ˈlæn(d)skɪp/ fairly common
noun (4) verb (2)

noun

1.

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

2.
3.
4.

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”

verb

1.

embellish with plants

  • “Let”
2.

do landscape gardening

  • “My sons landscapes for corporations and earns a good living”

Origin

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”). Cognate with Scots landskape, landskep, landskip (“landscape”), West Frisian lânskip (“landscape”), Low German landschop (“landscape, district”), German Landschaft (“landscape, countryside, scenery”), Danish landskab (“landscape, countryside”), Swedish landskap (“landscape, scenery, province”), Icelandic landskapur (“countryside”). By surface analysis, land + -ship.

Phrases

  • English landscape garden
  • English landscape park
  • fitness landscape
  • landscape architect
  • landscape architecture
  • landscape connectedness
  • landscape connectivity
  • landscape gardener

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