landscape

Everyday

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 →

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».