landscape Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
  2. noun painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery
  3. noun a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery
    landscape painting.
  4. noun 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
  5. verb embellish with plants
    • Let's landscape the yard
  6. verb do landscape gardening
    • My sons landscapes for corporations and earns a good living

WordNet

Land"scape noun
Etymology
D. landschap; land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. landskap, Dan. landskab. See Land, and -schip.
Definitions
  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 scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.
  3. The pictorial aspect of a country.
    The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart. Macaulay.

Webster 1913