landscape

noun

• 1all the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal:the soft colours of the Northumbrian landscape a bleak urban landscape
• a picture representing an area of countryside: the collection includes some 17th-century landscapes [as modifier]:a landscape painter
• [mass noun] the genre of landscape painting: he found he could not express himself in landscape
• the distinctive features of a sphere of activity:the event transformed the political landscape

• 2 [as modifier] denoting a format of printed matter which is wider than it is high: a landscape format sketchbookCompare with portrait (sense 2).

verb

• improve the aesthetic appearance of (an area) by changing its contours, adding ornamental features, or planting trees and shrubs:the site has been tastefully landscaped