Dictionary of Meaning
<<Back
Please select a letter:
A |
B |
C |
D |
E |
F |
G |
H |
I |
J |
K |
L |
M |
N |
O |
P |
Q |
R |
S |
T |
U |
V |
W |
X |
Y |
Z |
0-9
Click here for Shopping
Landscape
*** Shopping-Tip: Landscape
Image:landscapesmall.png right|thumb|300px|Photograph of a landscape
A '''landscape''' comprises the visible features of an area of land, including physical elements such as
landform landforms, living elements of flora and fauna, abstract elements such as lighting and weather conditions, and human elements, for instance human activity or the
built environment. Landscape can also mean the objects around you in a building. Example;
"I went to the mall, because I heard that the Landscape there is wonderful" or "I love the landscape of this house".
The word ''landscape'' is from the
Dutch language Dutch, ''landschap'' (the
German language German cognate is ''landschaft'') meaning a sheaf, a patch of cultivated ground. The word first appeared in English to describe a painted view of the land.
Specific uses of '''landscape''' include:
*
Landscape art is the depiction of a landscape in a painting, photograph or other work of art.
*
Landscape architecture is the art of planning, designing, and managing public and private landscapes and gardens. Related terms include:
**
Landscape design
**
Landscape engineering
**
Landscape planning
**Landscape gardening is the practice of designing large scale estate gardens, and is usually applied to the 18th and 19th centuries, and seen as a precursor to landscape architecture.
**A Landscape contractor ("landscaper") is a tradesman or firm undertaking '''landscaping''' works.
*
Landscape ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology that investigates the ecological causes and consequences of spatial pattern, process and change in landscapes.
*Landscape orientation of a rectangular page, painting or other graphic means that the longer axis is horizontal. (So named because landscape paintings usually have this orientation.) When the long axis is vertical, it is called
portrait orientation.
* ''
Landscape (play) Landscape'' is a play by Harold Pinter
*
Landscape (band) Landscape was a British 1980s synthpop band.
*
Anthropic landscape is a concept in string theory.
*
Cultural landscapes are "combined works of nature and of man." They are illustrative of the evolution of human society and settlement over time, under the influence of the physical constraints and/or opportunities presented by their natural environment and of successive social, economic and cultural forces, both external and internal [http://whc.unesco.org/exhibits/cultland/landscape.htm].
In some nordic countries a '''landskap''' is or was an administrative unit:
*
Landscapes of Norway
*
Landscapes of Sweden (provinces)
See also
{{wiktionarypar|landscape}}
*
Cityscape
*
Cloudscape (art) Cloudscape
*
Hardscape
*
Moonscape
*
Riverscape
*
Seascape
*
Skyscape
*
Manscaping
*
Soundscape
Category:Dutch loanwords
ca:Paisatge
de:Landschaft
es:Paisaje
fr:Paysage
it:Paesaggio
nl:Landschap
ja:景観
nds:Landschap
pl:Pejzaż
pt:Paisagem
ru:Пейзаж
*** Shopping-Tip: Landscape
