scene
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: BDSM
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
radio
sexuality
television
theater
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.
Inflected forms:
form: scenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scæne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: scene!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
form: scæne
pos: intj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The location of an event that attracts attention.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the scene of the crime
Lily was pronounced dead at the scene.
gloss: The stage.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: They stood in the centre of the scene.
gloss: The decorations; furnishings, and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: to paint scenes
to change the scenes
behind the scenes
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The play is divided into three acts, and in total twenty-five scenes.
The most moving scene is the final one, where he realizes he has wasted his whole life.
There were some very erotic scenes in the movie, although it was not classified as pornography.
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.
gloss: The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In Troy, there lies the scene.
The world is a vast scene of strife.
gloss: A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He assessed the scene to check for any danger, and agreed it was safe.
They saw an angry scene outside the pub.
Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
gloss: A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, / Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn.
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The headmistress told the students not to cause a scene.
The crazy lady made a scene in the grocery store.
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.
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
gloss: An element of fiction writing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She got into the emo scene at an early age.
Indie just isn't my scene.
gloss: (by extension) A youth subculture popular in the Anglosphere in the 2000s and early 2010s.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: (by extension) A youth subculture popular in the Anglosphere in the 2000s and early 2010s.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fantasy that is acted out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A notice to actors that their performance has ended.
pos: intj
examples: Near-synonym: cut!
Related words: proscenium
Derived words: behind-the-scenes
change of scene
dark alternative 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
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