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Waterscape

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An aquatic landscape; a view or site prominently involving water.

    "As early as 1898, Monet had thought of combining a series of such waterscapes into one wall-filling frieze […]"

  2. 2
    a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To create an aquatic landscape.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From water + -scape. Compare Middle English watershipe (“a gathering of waters”), Old English wætersċipe (“a body of water”), Old Saxon watriscapum (“watercourse, watersource”), Middle Dutch waterschap (“watercourse, waterway”) (whence Dutch waterschap).

Etymology 2

From water + -scape. Compare Middle English watershipe (“a gathering of waters”), Old English wætersċipe (“a body of water”), Old Saxon watriscapum (“watercourse, watersource”), Middle Dutch waterschap (“watercourse, waterway”) (whence Dutch waterschap).

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