landscaped

landscaped — verb

1. to change the appearance of a garden, park, yard, or other outdoor area by arran

1.verbtransitiveB2
Definition

to change the appearance of a garden, park, yard, or other outdoor area by arranging plants, trees, stones, paths, or similar features in a planned way.

Example

Feng landscaped the empty land behind his house with a pond and a stone path.

landscape + noun phrase (the area improved)

The park was landscaped last spring with rows of cherry trees and wooden benches.

passive form: be landscaped with [features]

Common collocations
  • landscape + garden / yard / park / courtyard / grounds / area
  • professionally landscaped
  • newly landscaped
  • beautifully landscaped
Synonyms
  • beautify

    more general; can apply to any place or thing, not just outdoor land

  • garden

    refers mainly to planting and tending flowers or vegetables, not full landscape design

  • design

    focuses on planning the layout rather than the physical work of adding features

Grammar Patterns

landscape + noun phrase (the area being improved)

Usage Note

Frequently used in the passive voice (e.g., 'The garden was landscaped') or as a past participle before a noun ('a landscaped park'). The direct object is usually an outdoor space such as a garden, yard, park, or courtyard.

Common Mistakes

They landscaped the living room with new furniture.
They landscaped the backyard with new plants and a stone path.
The verb 'landscape' is used only for outdoor areas, not indoor rooms.

Word family

Synonym discussion

Sense: verb/1

All three words relate to improving a place, but 'landscape' is specific to outdoor areas and involves planned arrangement of multiple features. 'Beautify' is the broadest — you can beautify a room, a website, or a city street by making it more attractive in any way. 'Garden' (as a verb) focuses on the hands-on work of planting and caring for flowers, vegetables, or shrubs, usually on a smaller scale without the structural planning that landscaping involves. 'Design' emphasises the layout and planning stage rather than the physical installation. For example, you might design a park on paper but hire a team to landscape it; you might garden in your vegetable patch every weekend but hire a professional to landscape the front yard.

beautifygarden ↗design ↗

Common collocations

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Etymology

DutchEnglish

The verb 'landscape' comes from the noun 'landscape', which entered English in the early 1600s from Dutch 'landschap' — a painter's term for a picture of inland scenery. By the 1700s, the word was used for real outdoor views, and by the 1800s, it became a verb meaning 'to design or improve outdoor land as if composing a picture'.