Seascape
/ˈsiː.skeɪp/noun
A view or artistic representation of the sea and its surrounding coastal scenery.
Did you know?Seascape is a relatively modern artistic and descriptive term, modeled on landscape as Western culture increasingly treated nature as something to observe, classify, and represent.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*saiwiz
“A body of salt water; the ancestral Germanic source of sea”
Old English
OE
sǣ
“The sea or ocean”
Middle English
ME
see
“The sea; a large expanse of salt water”
16th Century
Dutch
landschap
“A tract of land or a painted representation of scenery”
16th Century
English
landscape
“A view of natural scenery, later especially a genre of painting”
19th Century
English
seascape
“A sea view or artistic representation of the sea, formed on the model of landscape”
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