Word Meanings - LANDSCAPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual

Additional info about word: LANDSCAPE

land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. 3. The pictorial aspect of a country. The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart. Macaulay. Landscape gardening, The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LANDSCAPE)

• Prospect
• View
• vision
• field
• landscape
• hope
• anticipation
• probability

Related words: (words related to LANDSCAPE)

• FIELD
  The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity
• FIELDING
  The act of playing as a fielder.
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• FIELDY
  Open, like a field. Wyclif.
• VISION
  The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve. 3. That
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• VISIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being visionary.
• PROBABILITY
  Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st Chance, n., 5. Syn. -- Likeliness; credibleness; likelihood;
• LANDSCAPE
  land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual
• VISIONLESS
  Destitute of vision; sightless.
• FIELDED
  Engaged in the field; encamped. To help fielded friends. Shak.
• PROSPECTIVENESS
  Quality of being prospective.
• PROSPECTIVELY
  In a prospective manner.
• VISIONIST
  A visionary.
• FIELDEN
  Consisting of fields. The fielden country also and plains. Holland.
• FIELDFARE
  a small thrush which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.
• FIELDER
  A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.
• PROSPECT
  look forward; pro before, forward + specere, spicere, look, to see: 1. That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook. His eye discovers unaware The goodly prospect of some foreign
• PROSPECTLESS
  Having no prospect.
• FIELDWORK
  Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural. All works which do not come under the head of permanent fortification are called fieldworks. Wilhelm.
• HOMEFIELD
  Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.
• INFIELD
  To inclose, as a field.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• PROVISIONARY
  Provisional. Burke.
• PROVISIONAL
  Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
• INVISION
  Want of vision or of the power of seeing. Sir T. Browne.
• IMPROVISION
  Improvidence. Sir T. Browne.
• REVISION
  1. The act of revising; reëxamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes. 2. That which is made by revising. Syn. -- Reëxamination; revisal; revise; review.
• HAYFIELD
  A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow. Cowper.