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