landscape
n. countablen. everything you can see when you look across a large area of land. It can also mean the way a page is printed so it is wider than it is tall.
n. the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal. In a technical context, it refers to a page orientation where the horizontal dimension is greater than the vertical.
The mountain landscape is beautiful in the winter.
The artist spent the entire afternoon painting the rugged landscape of the valley.
The political landscape has shifted significantly since the last election, leaving many traditional parties struggling to find their footing in a more digital age.
From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English landschippe, landschapp, from Old English landsċipe, landsċeap (“region, district, tract of land”); in some senses from Dutch landschap (“region, district, province, landscape”), from Middle Dutch landscap, lantscap (“region”), from Old Dutch landskepi, landskapi (“region”). Cognate with Scots landskape, landskep, landskip (“landscape”), West Frisian lânskip (“landscape”), Low German landschop (“landscape, district”), German Landschaft (“landscape, countryside, scenery”), Danish landskab (“landscape, countryside”), Swedish landskap (“landscape, scenery, province”), Icelandic landskapur (“countryside”). By surface analysis, land + -ship.