waterscape

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English

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Etymology

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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).

Noun

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waterscape (plural waterscapes)

  1. An aquatic landscape; a view or site prominently involving water.
    • 2002, Lorenz Eitner, 19th century European painting: David to Cézanne:
      As early as 1898, Monet had thought of combining a series of such waterscapes into one wall-filling frieze []

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Verb

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waterscape (third-person singular simple present waterscapes, present participle waterscaping, simple past and past participle waterscaped)

  1. To create an aquatic landscape.