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Definition of "landscapist" [land•scap•ist]

  • A painter of landscapes. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "landscapist" in a sentence
  • "Patrick James, a historical landscapist who has restored the Victorian gardens to its former glory, said: "It's a lost landscape … a whole designed landscape that's been forgotten.""
  • "The landscapist — our visionary surrogate — ventures into the world, returning with scenes of faraway and inaccessible locales."
  • "Though her thesis was devoted to the eighteenth-century Frankfurt landscapist Johann Morgenstern, she began promoting contemporary German art."