scene

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English

Alternative forms

• scæne (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: sēn, IPA^(key): /siːn/
• Homophone: seen
• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

scene (plural scenes)

1. The location of an event that attracts attention.

3. (archaic, theater) The stage.

4. (theater) The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set.

5. (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.
6. The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up.
7. A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.
8. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
9. 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.
10. An element of fiction writing. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
11. A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.

12. A youth subculture popular in the Anglosphere in the 2000s and early 2010s.
13. (BDSM) A BDSM fantasy that is acted out.

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.
2. (intransitive, BDSM) To roleplay.

See also

• mise-en-scene

Anagrams

• cenes, cense, sence

Danish

Etymology

Via Latin scaena from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːnə/, [ˈseːnə]
• 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)

Declension

Derived terms

• iscenesætte
• sceneri
• sceneshow

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃɛ.ne/
• Rhymes: -ɛne
• Hyphenation: scè‧ne

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 σκηνή (skēnḗ, “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 σκηνή (skēnḗ, “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 *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeː.ne/

Adjective

sċēne (Anglian)

1. Alternative form of sċīene

Declension