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# landscape

«landscape» in Mova's school dictionary: **everything you can see when you look across a wide area…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/#m1)

2) A landscape is also a painting or photo of such a view. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/#m2)

3) Landscape (format) means a page or screen that is wider than it is tall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/#m3)

4) To landscape a garden or park is to change its shape and plant things to make it look nicer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/#m4)

5) The landscape of something is its general situation, for example «the political landscape». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/#x1)
- Glaciers shaped the landscape of Scotland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/#x2)
- We painted a landscape with a red sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/#x3)
- Turn the paper to landscape for your poster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/#x4)
- Hold the tablet in landscape to watch the video. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/#x5)
- They landscaped the school garden with ponds and paths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/#x6)
- Factories changed the landscape of the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/#x7)
- The desert landscape looked empty and dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/#x8)
- Grand, dark, and gloomy appeared the landscape around him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/#x9)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landscape/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.