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landscape

noun
/ˈlan(d)skeɪp/UK/ˈlæn(d)skɪp/

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”). 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.

  1. derived from landschap
  2. inherited from landsċipe
  3. inherited from *landschippe✻

Definitions

  1. A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and…

    A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.

    • Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.
    • Its steel helped build America, from the skyscrapers dotting city landscapes to the cars speeding down highways, to the appliances inside millions of homes.

  2. A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the…

    A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen.

    • The rolling Chocolate Hills of Bohol in the Philippines could easily be mistaken for a child’s landscape drawing.

  3. A sociological aspect of a physical area.

    • In light of such conceptualisations of the power of linguistic landscapes, we set out to examine the connection between the visual landscape and the spoken landscape in our institution[.]
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A picture representing a real or imaginary scene by land or sea, the main subject being…

      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.

    2. The pictorial aspect of a country.

    3. a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides

    4. A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")

    5. a situation that is presented, a scenario

      • The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years

    6. To create or maintain a landscape.

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Derived

blandscape, brandscape, English landscape garden, English landscape park, fitness landscape, isoscape, landscape architect, landscape architecture, landscape connectedness, landscape connectivity, landscape gardener, landscape gardening, landscape genetics, landscaper, landscapey, landscapism, landscapist, landscapity, linguistic landscape, microlandscape, office landscape, palaeolandscape, paleolandscape, relandscape, -scape

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at landscape. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at landscape. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at landscape

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA