scene
English
/siːn/
noun
Definitions
- The location of an event that attracts attention.
- (archaic) the stage.
- (theatre) The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set
- (theatre) 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.
Etymology
Derived from Middle French scene derived from Latin scaena derived from Ancient Greek σκηνή (stage, scene, tent, theatre stage, booth).
Origin
Ancient Greek
σκηνή
Gloss
stage, scene, tent, theatre stage, booth
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
🎪 🏕️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- back English
- backscene English
- demo English
- demoscene English
- demoscener English
- emu English
- emuscene English
- graph English
- midscene English
- monoscene English
- multiscene English
- nonscene English
- scened English
- sceneful English
- scenegraph English
- sceneless English
- scenelessness English
- scenelet English
- sceneman English
- scener English
- scenescape English
- scenesetter English
- scenesetting English
- sceneshifter English
- scenester English
- scenesterism English
- sceney English
- scenical English
- scenographic English
- scenography English
- setter English
- setting English
- shifter English
- skene English
- subscene English
- demoskene Finnish
- scaena Latin
- scaenarium Latin
- scēna Latin
- Szene German
- scena Italian
- scenario Italian
- сце́на Russian
- сценический Russian
- сценка Russian
- προσκήνιον Ancient Greek
- σκηνή Ancient Greek
- σκηνογράφος Ancient Greek
- σκηνοφύλαξ Ancient Greek
- scene Norwegian Bokmål
- cena Portuguese
- シーン Japanese
- scene Norwegian Nynorsk
- scene Danish
- scéna Czech
- σκηνή Greek (modern)
- Zeen Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- scene Middle French
- סצנה Hebrew (modern)
- ⲥⲕⲩⲛⲏ Coptic
- emu
- demo
- back
- graph
- skene
- scened
- sceney
- scener
- setter
- shifter
- setting
- scenical
- scenelet
- nonscene
- emuscene
- midscene
- sceneman
- subscene
- sceneful
- monoscene
- backscene
- sceneless
- scenester
- demoscene
- multiscene
- scenescape
- demoscener
- scenegraph
- scenesetter
- scenography
- scenographic
- scenesetting
- sceneshifter
- scenesterism
- scenelessness