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scene

English

Alternative forms

  • scæne (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French scene, from Latin scaena, sc?na, from Ancient Greek ????? (sk?n?, scene, stage). Doublet of scena.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: s?n, IPA(key): /si?n/
  • Homophone: seen
  • Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

scene (plural scenes)

  1. The location of an event that attracts attention.
  2. (archaic, theater) the stage.
  3. (theater) The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set
  4. (theater, film, television, radio) 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
    • c. 1810, John M. Mason, On Religious Controversy
      The world is a vast scene of strife.
  6. A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.
    • Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
  7. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
    • A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, / Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn.
  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
    • 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Kolsterheim
      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.
  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.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • proscenium

Verb

scene (third-person singular simple present scenes, present participle scening, simple past and past participle scened)

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

Anagrams

  • cenes, cense, sence

Danish

Etymology

Via Latin scaena from Ancient Greek ????? (sk?n?, scene, stage).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /se?n?/, [?se?n?]
  • Homophone: sene

Noun

scene c (singular definite scenen, plural indefinite scener)

  1. stage (platform for performing in a theatre)
  2. scene (section of a film or a play)
  3. scene (a setting or a behaviour)

Inflection

Derived terms

  • iscenesætte
  • sceneri
  • sceneshow

Italian

Noun

scene f pl

  1. plural of scena

Middle French

Etymology

First known attestation 1486, borrowed from Latin scaena.

Noun

scene f

  1. stage (location where a play, etc., takes place)

References


Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • sene

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (sk?n?, scene, stage), via Latin scaena

Noun

scene m (definite singular scenen, indefinite plural scener, definite plural scenene)

  1. a stage (in a theatre)
  2. a scene (in a film or play)

Derived terms

  • iscenesette
  • sceneshow

References

  • “scene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • sene

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (sk?n?, scene, stage), via Latin scaena

Noun

scene m (definite singular scenen, indefinite plural scenar, definite plural scenane)
scene f (definite singular scena, indefinite plural scener, definite plural scenene)

  1. a stage (in a theatre)
  2. a scene (in a film or play)

Derived terms

  • sceneshow

References

  • “scene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skaun?, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??e?.ne/

Adjective

s??ne

  1. Alternative form of s??ene

Declension

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stagehand

English

Etymology

stage +? hand (manual worker)

Noun

stagehand (plural stagehands)

  1. A person who works behind the scenes at a theatre or in other theatrical media.
    The actors get the glory, the spotlight and the name up in lights while it is the stagehands who point the spotlight, hang the name and change the light bulbs.

Synonyms

  • scene-shifter

Translations

Anagrams

  • Daghestan

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