scene

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.

Pronunciation

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

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
  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. (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

  1. Alternative form of sċīene

Declension

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