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landscaped Definition


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landscape
noun
    1. The area and features of land that can be seen in a broad view, especially when they form a particular type of scenery.
      Thesaurus: scenery, countryside.
    2a. A painting, drawing, photograph, etc of the countryside, often depicting natural elements, such as trees, rivers, mountains, etc;
    2b. The genre of this.
    3a. Consisting of landscape; having landscape as one's subject;
    3b. Said of the orientation of a page, illustration, etc: wider than it is tall or deep. Compare portrait.
verb
    landscaped, landscaping
    1. To improve the look of (a garden, park, the layout of a housing estate, etc) by enhancing the existing natural features or by artificially creating new ones.
Etymology: 17c: from Dutch land + schap creation, originally introduced as a technical term in painting.



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