Translate landscape | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of landscape
noun
1all the visible features of an area of countryside or land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal:the giant cacti that dominate this landscape a bleak urban landscape a picture representing an area of countryside: [as modifier]:a landscape painter the genre of landscape painting. the distinctive features of a particular situation or intellectual activity:the event transformed the political landscape
2 [as modifier] (of a page, book, or illustration, or the manner in which it is set or printed) wider than it is high. Compare with portrait (sense 2).
verb
[with object] (usually be landscaped) improve the aesthetic appearance of (a piece of land) by changing its contours, adding ornamental features, or planting trees and shrubs:the site has been tastefully landscaped (as noun landscaping)the company spent $15,000 on landscaping
