Collins English-English Dictionary

landscape ['lænd,skeɪp]

1. 1. n an extensive area of land regarded as being visually distinct

   ugly slagheaps dominated the landscape

2. 2. n a painting, drawing, photograph, etc, depicting natural scenery

3. 3. n the genre including such pictures

4. 4. n (as modifier)

   landscape painter

5. 5. n the distinctive features of a given area of intellectual activity, regarded as an integrated whole

   the landscape of the European imagination

6. 6. adj [printing] (of a publication or an illustration in a publication) of greater width than height - Compare portrait

7. 7. adj (of a page) carrying an illustration or table printed at right angles to the normal text

8. 8. vt. [tr] to improve the natural features of (a garden, park, etc), as by creating contoured features and planting trees

9. 9. vi. [intr] to work as a landscape gardener

10. 10. vi. [Etymology] C16 landskip (originally a term in painting), from Middle Dutch lantscap region; related to Old English landscipe tract of land, Old High German lantscaf region