Search Result for "landscape":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (4)
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;
[syn: landscape, landscape painting]
4. an extensive mental viewpoint;
- Example: "the political landscape looks bleak without a change of administration"
- Example: "we changed the landscape for solving the problem of payroll inequity"
VERB (2)
1. embellish with plants;
- Example: "Let's landscape the yard"
2. do landscape gardening;
- Example: "My sons landscapes for corporations and earns a good living"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Landscape \Land"scape\, n. [Formerly written also landskip.] [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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. The pictorial aspect of a country. [1913 Webster] The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Landscape gardening, The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "landscape": airscape, aspect, cityscape, cloudscape, countryside, diorama, exterior, farmscape, interior, lookout, outlook, panorama, pastoral, perspective, prospect, riverscape, scape, scene, scenery, scenic view, seapiece, seascape, sight, skyscape, snowscape, sweep, townscape, view, vista, waterscape
