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A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.countableuncountable
- 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.
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A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen.countableuncountable
- The rolling Chocolate Hills of Bohol in the Philippines could easily be mistaken for a child’s landscape drawing.
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A sociological aspect of a physical area.countableuncountable
- 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[.]
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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.countableuncountable
- 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
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The pictorial aspect of a country.countableuncountable
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a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides.uncountable
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A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape").countableuncountable
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a situation that is presented, a scenario.countablefigurativelyuncountable
- The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years
syn. landscape · outlook · panorama · perspective · prospect · scene · scenery · terrain · view
ant. portrait