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scene
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noun
- the place where some action or event occurs:
He returned to the scene of the accident.
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- any view or picture:
The scene that lay before me, with its snow and colorful leaves, was beautiful.
- an incident or situation in real life:
She witnessed the scene at the restaurant as it happened.
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- an embarrassing outbreak or display of anger, strong feeling, or bad manners:
Please don't make a scene in such a public place.
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- a division of a play or of an act of a play, usually representing a passage of time in a single setting, featuring a specific character or group of characters:
Scene Four takes place in a city park at dawn.
- a unit of action or a segment of a story in a play, motion picture, or television show:
The DVD contains many short scenes showing classic plane models at U.S. and European airports.
- the place in which the action of a play or part of a play is supposed to occur.
- Literature.
- an episode, situation, or the like, as in a narrative.
- the setting or locale of a story.
- the stage, especially of an ancient Greek or Roman theater.
- an area or sphere of activity, current interest, etc.:
the rock music scene;
the fashion scene.
scene
/ ː /
noun
- the place where an action or event, real or imaginary, occurs
- the setting for the action of a play, novel, etc
- an incident or situation, real or imaginary, esp as described or represented
- a subdivision of an act of a play, in which the time is continuous and the setting fixed
- a single event, esp a significant one, in a play
- films a shot or series of shots that constitutes a unit of the action
- the backcloths, stage setting, etc, for a play or film set; scenery
- the prospect of a place, landscape, etc
- a display of emotion, esp an embarrassing one to the onlookers
- informal.the environment for a specific activity
the fashion scene
- informal.interest or chosen occupation
classical music is not my scene
- rare.the stage, esp of a theatre in ancient Greece or Rome
- behind the scenesout of public view; privately
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·ٱ·Ա noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of scene1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of scene1
Idioms and Phrases
- make the scene, Slang. to appear in a particular place or engage in a particular activity:
Let's make the scene downtown tonight. She was never one to make the drug scene.
- behind the scenes. behind the scenes.
More idioms and phrases containing scene
see behind the scenes ; make a scene ; make the scene ; on the scene ; set the scene for .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Whether the music adds extra flavor to his raging action scenes or amplifies an episode’s lazy backstroke through existential loneliness, you feel his work’s best moments in your bones.
The man, who was a front seat passenger of a car, was pronounced dead at the scene.
She was also photographed in a white wedding gown surrounded by film crew for a scene believed to be her marriage to Heathcliff's rival, Edgar Linton.
On Friday a crime scene remained in place around New Street and Ramsden Street as officers investigated.
She was soon involved in a party scene and her life became more and more chaotic.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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