Waterscape
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape) wordnet
Verb
- 1 To create an aquatic landscape.
Example
More examples"As early as 1898, Monet had thought of combining a series of such waterscapes into one wall-filling frieze […]"
Etymology
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).