landscape

1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
2. A sociological aspect of a physical area.
3. 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.
4. The pictorial aspect of a country.
5. A mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
6. A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
7. A situation that is presented, a scenario

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verb

To create or maintain a landscape.