landscape

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.

   “Piſcat[or]. [...] [T]heſe Hills though high, bleak, and craggy, breed and feed good Beef, and Mutton above ground, and afford good ſtore of Lead within. / Viat[or]. They had need of all thoſe commodities to make amends for the ill Land-ſchape: [...]”

   “Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.”

   “Its steel helped build America, from the skyscrapers dotting city landscapes to the cars speeding down highways, to the appliances inside millions of homes.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen.

   “The rolling Chocolate Hills of Bohol in the Philippines could easily be mistaken for a child’s landscape drawing.”

3. (countable, uncountable)A sociological aspect of a physical area.

   “In light of such conceptualisations of the power of linguistic landscapes, we set out to examine the connection between the visual landscape and the spoken landscape in our institution[.]”

4. (countable, uncountable)A picture representing a real or imaginary scene by land or sea, the main subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water, etc.

   “The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.”

5. (countable, uncountable)The pictorial aspect of a country.
6. (uncountable)a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
7. (countable, uncountable)A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
8. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)a situation that is presented, a scenario

   “The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years”

verb

1. To create or maintain a landscape.