landscape
noun · verb
Simple meaning
A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical features.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
landskaypSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈlændskeɪp
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
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Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
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.
An expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
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.
The pictorial aspect of a country.
A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
verb
Do landscape gardening
“My sons landscapes for corporations and earns a good living.”
To create or maintain a landscape.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B1 · Intermediate
- Frequency
- Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
Used this way, landscape is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. This sense is used where position and measurement matter — travel, weather and flight — so it reads as factual rather than emotive.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Where it naturally appears
- Geography/travel
- Weather/aviation
- Technical/specialist writing
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Word Family
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Inflected forms
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Working as a landscape gardener.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
Someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively.
Working as a landscape gardener.
A genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery.
Someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively.
The art, planning, design, management, preservation and rehabilitation of the land and the design of large man-made constructs.
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