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From Middle French scène, from Latin scaena, scēna, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnē), scene, stage).

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Singular
scene

Plural
scenes

scene (plural scenes)

  1. The location of an event that attracts attention.
  2. (theater) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage.
  3. The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes.
  4. So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes.
  5. The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition, or action.
  6. An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.
  7. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
  8. An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others; 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 a large informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity.

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scene

  1. To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.

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scene f.

  1. Plural form of scena.

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Proto-Germanic *skaunaz

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scēne

  1. resplendent
  2. beautiful