Scene

Quick meaning: Scene is a noun meaning The location of an event that attracts attention.

Meaning

The location of an event that attracts attention.

More Meanings

1. (theater) The decorations; furnishings, and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set.
2. The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up.
3. A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.
4. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
5. (theater, film, television, radio) A part of a dramatic work that is set in the same place or time. In the theatre, generally a number of scenes constitute an act.
6. An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often, an artificial or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.
7. (archaic, theater) The stage.

Example Sentences

to paint scenes

behind the scenes

to change the scenes

the scene of the crime

Word Forms

• scenes
• scening
• scened

Synonyms for scene

Depending on context, synonyms include cut, aspect, prospect, fit, view, picture.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include setting, vista, aspect, prospect, view, picture.

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