English Explanatory Dictionary

waterscape

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An aquatic landscape; a view or site prominently involving water.
verb
  1. To create an aquatic landscape.

Word forms

waterscape waterscapes waterscaping waterscaped

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).

Related words

aquascape
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