scene
//siːn//
Forms
- Plural
- scenes
- present (v1)
- scene
- past (v2)
- scened
- past participle (v3)
- scened
- present participle
- scening
- 3rd person singular
- scenes
Definitions
1.The location of an event that attracts attention.
- Lily was pronounced dead at the scene.
2.The decorations; furnishings, and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set.
3.The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up.
- In Troy, there lies the scene.
- The world is a vast scene of strife.
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.
- The play is divided into three acts, and in total twenty-five scenes.
- The most moving scene is the final one, where he realizes he has wasted his whole life.
- There were some very erotic scenes in the movie, although it was not classified as pornography.
1.Short for demoscene.
2.To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
1.A notice to actors that their performance has ended.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #823
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Late Middle English scene, from Middle French scene, borrowed from Latin sc(a)ena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”).
Doublet of scena and skene.