scene

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

1. To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
2. To roleplay.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/siːn/

Etymology

From Middle French scene, from Latin scaena, scēna, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”). Doublet of scena and skene.

Sentences

They were initially connected to the German krautrock scene .