Definition of SCENE

scene

Plural: scenes

Noun

  • The place where an event occurs; a specific setting.
  • the place where some action occurs
    • "the police returned to the scene of the crime"
  • an incident (real or imaginary)
    • "their parting was a sad scene"
  • the visual percept of a region
  • a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
  • a situation treated as an observable object
    • "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
  • a subdivision of an act of a play
    • "the first act has three scenes"
  • a display of bad temper
    • "he made a scene"
  • graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept
    • "he painted scenes from everyday life"
  • the context and environment in which something is set
  • the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale
    • "they worked all night painting the scenery"
  • The location of an event that attracts attention.
  • The stage.
  • The decorations; furnishings, and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set.
  • 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 location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up.
  • A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.
  • A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
  • 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.
  • An element of fiction writing.
  • A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.
  • A youth subculture popular in the Anglosphere in the 2000s and early 2010s.
  • A fantasy that is acted out.

Verb

  • To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
  • To roleplay.

Intj

  • A notice to actors that their performance has ended.

Examples

  • behind the scenes
  • He assessed the scene to check for any danger, and agreed it was safe.
  • Indie just isn't my scene.
  • She got into the emo scene at an early age.
  • The crazy lady made a scene in the grocery store.
  • The double-word square was the SCENE of many high-scoring plays in Words With Friends.
  • The headmistress told the students not to cause a scene.
  • The most moving scene is the final one, where he realizes he has wasted his whole life.
  • The play is divided into three acts, and in total twenty-five scenes.
  • the scene of the crime
  • There were some very erotic scenes in the movie, although it was not classified as pornography.
  • They saw an angry scene outside the pub.
  • They stood in the centre of the scene.
  • to change the scenes
  • to paint scenes

Origin / 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.

Scrabble Score: 7

scene: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
scene: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scene: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

scene: valid Words With Friends Word