scene

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English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle French scene, from Latin scaena, scēna, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”). Doublet of scena.

Pronunciation

Noun

scene (plural scenes)

  1. The location of an event that attracts attention.
    the scene of the crime
  3. (archaic, theater) the stage.
    They stood in the centre of the scene.
  4. (theater) The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set
    to paint scenes
    to change the scenes
    behind the scenes
  5. (theater, film, television, radio) 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.
    • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Affair at the Novelty Theatre‎[1]:
      Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
    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.
  6. The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up
  7. A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.
    He assessed the scene to check for any danger, and agreed it was safe.
    They saw an angry scene outside the pub.
  8. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
    • 1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
      A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, / Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎[2]:
      He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
  9. 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
    The headmistress told the students not to cause a scene.
    The crazy lady made a scene in the grocery store.
    • 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Kolsterheim
      Probably no lover of scenes would have had very long to wait or some explosions between parties, both equally ready to take offence, and careless of giving it.
  10. An element of fiction writing.
  11. A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.
    She got into the emo scene at an early age.
  12. (clarification of this definition is needed) A youth subculture that was popular in Canada and the United States in the 2000s and early 2010s.

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Verb

scene (third-person singular simple present scenes, present participle scening, simple past and past participle scened)

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

Anagrams

Danish

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Etymology

Via Latin scaena from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”).

Pronunciation

Noun

scene c (singular definite scenen, plural indefinite scener)

  1. stage (platform for performing in a theatre)
  2. scene (section of a film or a play)
  3. scene (a setting or a behaviour)

Inflection

Declension of scene
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative scene scenen scener scenerne
genitive scenes scenens sceners scenernes

Derived terms

Italian

Pronunciation

Noun

scene f pl

  1. plural of scena

Middle French

Etymology

First known attestation 1486[1], borrowed from Latin scaena[2].

Noun

scene f

  1. stage (location where a play, etc., takes place)

References

  1. ^ Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (scene, supplement)
  2. ^ Etymology and history of “scene”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”), via Latin scaena.

Noun

scene m (definite singular scenen, indefinite plural scener, definite plural scenene)

  1. a stage (in a theatre)
  2. a scene (in a film or play)

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”), via Latin scaena.

Noun

scene m (definite singular scenen, indefinite plural scenar, definite plural scenane)
scene f (definite singular scena, indefinite plural scener, definite plural scenene)

  1. a stage (in a theatre)
  2. a scene (in a film or play)

Derived terms

References

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz.

Pronunciation

Adjective

sċēne

  1. Alternative form of sċīene

Declension

Declension of sċēne — Strong
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative sċēne sċēnu, sċēno sċēne
Accusative sċēnne sċēne sċēne
Genitive sċēnes sċēnre sċēnes
Dative sċēnum sċēnre sċēnum
Instrumental sċēne sċēnre sċēne
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative sċēne sċēna, sċēne sċēnu, sċēno
Accusative sċēne sċēna, sċēne sċēnu, sċēno
Genitive sċēnra sċēnra sċēnra
Dative sċēnum sċēnum sċēnum
Instrumental sċēnum sċēnum sċēnum
Declension of sċēne — Weak
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative sċēna sċēne sċēne
Accusative sċēnan sċēnan sċēne
Genitive sċēnan sċēnan sċēnan
Dative sċēnan sċēnan sċēnan
Instrumental sċēnan sċēnan sċēnan
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative sċēnan sċēnan sċēnan
Accusative sċēnan sċēnan sċēnan
Genitive sċēnra, sċēnena sċēnra, sċēnena sċēnra, sċēnena
Dative sċēnum sċēnum sċēnum
Instrumental sċēnum sċēnum sċēnum
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