landscape
part of speech
noun (a landscape, landscapes); verb (landscape, landscapes, landscaped, landscaping); adjective (landscape format)
meaning for a pupil
1) A landscape is everything you can see when you look across a wide area of land: hills, fields, rivers, trees and buildings. tree →
2) A landscape is also a painting or photo of such a view. tree →
3) Landscape (format) means a page or screen that is wider than it is tall. tree →
4) To landscape a garden or park is to change its shape and plant things to make it look nicer. tree →
5) The landscape of something is its general situation, for example «the political landscape». tree →
sense in the lessons
In geography: the shape of the land and how people and rivers change it (a rural or urban landscape); in art lessons: painting landscapes; on computers and printers: choosing landscape or portrait. In stories, describing the landscape sets the scene. Phrases: a beautiful landscape, landscape mode, the landscape of.
examples
- The landscape around the lake was green and hilly. tree →
- Glaciers shaped the landscape of Scotland. tree →
- We painted a landscape with a red sky. tree →
- Turn the paper to landscape for your poster. tree →
- Hold the tablet in landscape to watch the video. tree →
- They landscaped the school garden with ponds and paths. tree →
- Factories changed the landscape of the town. tree →
- The desert landscape looked empty and dry. tree →
- Grand, dark, and gloomy appeared the landscape around him. tree →
note
Countable noun: a landscape, landscapes. In art and computing the opposite of «landscape» is «portrait» (taller than wide). A landscape is about land; a view of the sea is called a «seascape».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «landscape» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.