landscapes

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of landscape.

   The mountain landscapes of the region attract photographers all year.

   Her gallery is filled with quiet rural landscapes.

   Note

   The plural belongs to the countable uses: stretches of terrain, views taken in at a glance, and paintings of nature, so a gallery can hold many landscapes. The printing sense, where a page is wider than it is tall, is uncountable and has no plural. A document is printed in landscape, never in landscapes. The same spelling also serves as the present-tense verb.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of landscape.

   He landscapes the grounds of large estates each spring.

   The crew landscapes new housing developments before residents move in.

   Note

   Here the noun has been put to work as a verb, and the -s marks a single subject in the present: he landscapes, the crew landscapes. It usually takes the ground being shaped as its direct object, such as the grounds, a backyard or a new development. It is spelled identically to the plural noun, and the words around it tell the two apart: a subject before it and an object after.

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