waterscape

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noun

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

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Meanings

nounwaterscape (plural waterscapes)

plural waterscapes

  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 […]

    2002, Lorenz Eitner, 19th century European painting: David to Cézanne
verbwaterscape (third-person singular simple present waterscapes, present participle waterscaping, simple past and past participle waterscaped)

present singular third person waterscapes · participle present waterscaping · participle past waterscaped · past waterscaped

  1. To create an aquatic landscape.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape)

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seascape
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seascape

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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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Translations

Bulgarian морски пейзаж
  • морски пейзаж (morski pejzaž)aquatic landscape
Dutch waterzicht
  • waterzichtaquatic landscape
Cite this entry
APA

waterscape. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waterscape

MLA

“waterscape.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waterscape. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “waterscape,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waterscape.

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