scene

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The location of an event that attracts attention.
2. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The stage.
3. (countable, uncountable) The decorations; furnishings, and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set.
4. (countable, uncountable) 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.
5. (countable, uncountable) The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up.
6. (countable, uncountable) A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.
7. (countable, uncountable) A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
8. (countable, uncountable) 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.
9. (countable, uncountable) An element of fiction writing.
10. (countable, uncountable) A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.
11. (uncountable) A youth subculture popular in the Anglosphere in the 2000s and early 2010s.
12. (countable, uncountable) A fantasy that is acted out.

Verb

1. (transitive) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
2. (intransitive) To roleplay.

Intj

A notice to actors that their performance has ended.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/siːn/

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.

Synonyms

view

scenery

landscape

stage

picture

sight

panorama

site

prospect

vista

row

setting

spectacle

👓

outlook

shot

venue

location

quarrel

fit

tantrum

background

conniption

spot

place

stage set

perspective

episode

uproar

squabble

tableau

locale

aspect

act

wrangle

fuss

frame

boards

forum

board

argument

field

eyepiece

blackboard

exhibition

passage

panoramic view

excitement

beholding

arena

action

Translations

scène

scena

escena

Szene

scène

cena

σκηνή

scena

Anblick

toneel

escena

vue

escenario

landschap

Schauplatz

Sentences

The police arrived at the scene thirty minutes later .

Her first scene was in the film " Merry X-Miss".

They were initially connected to the German krautrock scene .