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Landscape   /lˈændskˌeɪp/  /lˈænskˌeɪp/   Listen
Landscape

noun
(Formerly written also landskip)
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.  Synonym: landscape painting.
4.
An extensive mental viewpoint.  "We changed the landscape for solving the problem of payroll inequity"
verb
1.
Embellish with plants.
2.
Do landscape gardening.



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"Landscape" Quotes from Famous Books



... hated ostentation. The machine that waited outside for him under the porte-cochere was sober black. It was the most expensive machine in the county, yet he did not care to flaunt its price or horse-power in a red flare across the landscape, which also was mostly his, from the sand dunes and the everlasting beat of the Pacific breakers, across the fat bottomlands and upland pastures, to the far summits clad with redwood forest and ...
— The Turtles of Tasman • Jack London
... hands with him there was a light in his eyes. Have you ever seen the light break over the cliff-tops of some high mountain peak? Have you ever watched the sun kiss a landscape into beauty? Have you ever seen the earth dance with gladness as the sun bathed it with radiance and warmth? Oh, it's a great sight; but there's no sight like seeing the light from Calvary kiss a human face as it fills the heart with ...
— Your Boys • Gipsy Smith
... those bare, burning stretches of country with which Provence abounds. And here it is that 'La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret' opens in the old ruinous church, perched upon a hillock in full view of the squalid village, the arid fields, and the great belts of rock which shut in the landscape all around. ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola
... the welkin slant the snows and pile On sill and balcony, their feathery feet Trip o'er the landscape, and pursuing sleet Earth's brow beglooming, robs the skies of smile: Lies in her mourning-shroud our Northern Isle And bitter winds in battle o'er her meet. Her world is death-like, when behold! we greet Light-gleams from morning-land ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... the top of Rainbow Hill, a position sufficiently elevated to ensure its distribution over the upper stories of the highest houses. The "Old Waterworks" remain, and, as will be seen from our sketch, form a picturesque object in the landscape. The Severn is, however, no longer the fast-flowing stream poets have described it, but what it has lost in speed it has gained in depth, breadth, and majesty; the locks and weirs at Diglis—the former two abreast, and the latter stretching 400 feet across the stream—giving to it the aspect ...
— Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway - Illustrative and Descriptive of Places along the Line from - Worcester to Shrewsbury • J. Randall


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