scene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sēn
ipa: /siːn/
homophone: seen
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: scenes
form: scæne
Etymology: From Late Middle English scene, from Middle French scene, borrowed from Latin sc(a)ena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”). Doublet of scena and skene.
Senses: examples: text: the scene of the crime
glosses: The location of an event that attracts attention.
examples: text: They stood in the centre of the scene.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: The stage.
examples: text: to paint scenes
text: to change the scenes
text: behind the scenes
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: The decorations; furnishings, and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set.
examples: text: The play is divided into three acts, and in total twenty-five scenes.
text: The most moving scene is the final one, where he realizes he has wasted his whole life.
text: There were some very erotic scenes in the movie, although it was not classified as pornography.
text: Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
radio
television
theater
glosses: 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.
examples: text: In Troy, there lies the scene.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene prologue]:
text: The world is a vast scene of strife.
ref: c. 1810, John M. Mason, On Religious Controversy:
glosses: The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up.
examples: text: He assessed the scene to check for any danger, and agreed it was safe.
text: They saw an angry scene outside the pub.
text: Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene v, page 1:
glosses: A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.
examples: text: A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, / Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
examples: text: The headmistress told the students not to cause a scene.
text: The crazy lady made a scene in the grocery store.
text: Probably no lover of scenes would have had very long to wait or some explosions between parties, both equally ready to take offence, and careless of giving it.
ref: 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Kolsterheim:
text: I'm having wicked dreams of leaving Tennessee
Hear Santa Monica, I swear it's calling me
Won't make my mama proud, it's gonna cause a scene
She sees her baby girl, I know she's gonna scream
ref: 2020 April 3, Chappell Roan, Dan Nigro, “Pink Pony Club”performed by Chappell Roan:
glosses: 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.
glosses: An element of fiction writing.
examples: text: She got into the emo scene at an early age.
text: Indie just isn't my scene.
glosses: A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.
glosses: A youth subculture popular in the Anglosphere in the 2000s and early 2010s.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A fantasy that is acted out.
Hyponyms: backscene
crime scene
cut scene
deleted scene
demo scene
demoscene
emuscene
love scene
monoscene
nativity scene
primal scene
sex scene
subscene
Derived terms: behind-the-scenes
change of scene
drop-scene
enter the scene
interscene
make a scene
midscene
mise en scene
multiscene
nonscene
on-scene
on the scene
scenecore
scenecraft
scene-dock
sceneful
scene graph
scenegraph
scene kid
sceneless
scenelet
sceneman
sceneness
scene pack
scene queen
scene-room
scenery
scenescape
scenesetter
scenesetting
scene-shifter
sceneshifter
scene-stealer
scenester
scenetics
scenewright
sceney
scenic
scenical
scenic route
scenist
scenius
scenography
set the scene
steal the scene
scene stealing
scene-stealing
Related terms: proscenium