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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

ländliche Landschaft

Pronunciation / Transliteration: lɛntlɪçə ˈlandʃaft

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Rural landscape/ˈrʊr.əl ˈlænd.skeɪp/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Die ländliche Landschaft war voller Blumen."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A region or area characterized by open spaces, fields, and natural scenery, typically associated with farming or pastoral life.

    "The rural landscape was dotted with farms and grazing sheep."
  2. 2

    A depiction or representation of a countryside scene in art or photography.

    "The artist captured the beauty of the rural landscape in her painting."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'rural', deriving from the Latin 'ruralis' (pertaining to the country or farmland), stemming from 'rus' (open land, countryside), and 'landscape', originating from the Middle Dutch 'landschap', a painter's term combining 'land' and 'schap' (denoting quality or state). Together, the phrase evolved in modern geographical and artistic contexts to describe tracts of countryside characterized by agriculture, natural scenery, and low population density.

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