landscape
A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical featuresA portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
» He took a picture of the beautiful landscape.
Он сфотографировал этот прекрасный пейзаж.
Він сфотографував цей прекрасний краєвид.
Meaning
8 senses(countable, uncountable)A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
Landschaft
ландша́фтlandšáft, пейза́жpejzáž
краєви́дkrajevýd, ландша́фтlandšáft, пейза́жpejzáž
(countable, uncountable)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
(countable, uncountable)A sociological aspect of a physical area.
(countable, uncountable)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.
пейза́жpejzáž
(countable, uncountable)The pictorial aspect of a country.
Landschaft
(uncountable)A mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
Querformat
альбо́мная ориента́цияalʹbómnaja orijentácija
(countable, uncountable)A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)A situation that is presented, a scenario
The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years
Examples
202 sentencesHe took a picture of the beautiful landscape.
Він сфотографував цей прекрасний краєвид.
ruОн сфотографировал этот прекрасный пейзаж.
Tom often paints landscapes.
Том часто малює пейзажі.
ruТом часто рисует пейзажи.
deTom malt oft Landschaften.
The landscape is unfamiliar to me.
ruЭта местность незнакома мне.
deDie Landschaft ist mir unvertraut.
I gazed out of the window at the landscape.
Tom likes to paint landscapes. Mary prefers painting portraits.
Translations
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Origin
From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle EnFrom 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.
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Forms
plural: landscapes| Singular | landscape |
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Synonyms
10 synonyms- a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery:landscape painting
Antonyms
1 antonymsWord family
19 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable