Scene

Noun

 * 1) The location of an event that attracts attention.
 * 2)  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.
 * ''The crazy lady made a scene in the grocery store.
 * 1) An element of fiction writing.
 * 2) A social environment consisting of a large informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity.

Derived terms

 * scenic
 * scenery
 * scenic route

Verb

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

Adjectives for Scene
striking; moving; appropriate; painful; pastoral; mad; magnificent; solemn; shame¬less; sanguinary; sublime; grotesque; tedious; frightful; idyllic; desolate; lively; licentious; dramatic; affecting;  decorous; chaotic; animating; hopeful; delicious; brilliant; semi-tragic; violent; passionate; comical; pitiable; circling; martial; distant; enchanting; lofty; remote; novel; mythological; celestial; garish; foregoing; barren; fine; enveloping; cheerless; troubled; riotous; visionary; sylvan; wondrous; convivial; mountain; sunny; powerful; trial; tropical; odious; immediate; binding; classic; picturesque; exquisite;  murky; shifting; droll; torturing; grateful; flattering; varied; melodramatic; death-bed; adventurous: squalid;  fateful;   historic;   astonishing; mournful; pirate; pathetic; turbulent; previous; terse; wild; imposing; conspicuous; animated; human; dreadful; memorable; engrossing; realistic; night; impressive; imprisoned; mimic; shocking; pungent; horrible; distressing; harrowing; preliminary; soul-searching; ennobling; fearful; dismal; stirring; rollicking; vivid; agitating; perilous; heroic; touching; awful; renovated; sequestered; strange; trying; toiling; festive; tragic; quaint; singular; universal; monotonous; precarious; verdant; pacific; tranquil; beauteous.

Verbs for Scene
alter—; applaud—; behold—; cloud—; conceive—; conjure up—; contemplate—; detail —; dispatch to—; dominate—; dramatize—; eavesdrop upon—; enact—; flee—; hover over—; indulge in—; overshadow—; portray—; reconstruct—; reproduce—; retire from—; smirk at—; storm across—; stumble upon—; visualize—; weigh—; —depicts; —drifts; —motivates; —shifts; —takes momentum.

Thesaurus
access, act, act drop, action, afterpiece, agora, airscape, altercation, amphitheater, appear, area, arena, argument, asbestos, asbestos board, athletic field, auditorium, back, backdrop, background, batten, bear garden, behind the scenes, bit, blaze of temper, blowup, border, bowl, boxing ring, brouhaha, bull ring, burst, campus, canvas, chapter, chaser, circus, cityscape, cloth, cloudscape, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, commotion, confidentially, coulisse, counterweight, course, curtain, curtain board, curtain call, curtain raiser, cyclorama, decor, diorama, display, distance, disturbance, divertimento, divertissement, drop, drop curtain, epilogue, episode, eruption, exhibition, exode, exodus, explosion, expository scene, exterior, farmscape, field, finale, fire curtain, flare-up, flat, flipper, floor, forum, get about, get around, go out, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, hanging, high words, hinterland, hippodrome, hoke act, incident, interior, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, landscape, lists, locale, locality, location, lookout, make the scene, marketplace, mat, milieu, mise-en-scene, number, open forum, outburst, outlook, palaestra, panorama, parade ground, part, participate, pastoral, perspective, picture, pit, place, platform, precinct, privately, prize ring, prologue, prospect, public square, purlieu, rag, range, rear, ring, riverscape, routine, row, scape, scene of action, scenery, scenic view, screen, seapiece, seascape, secretly, section, segment, set, setting, shtick, side scene, sight, site, sketch, skit, skyscape, snowscape, socialize, song and dance, sphere, spot, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage screw, stage set, stage setting, stand-up comedy act, storm, striptease, surreptitiously, sweep, tab, tableau, tantrum, teaser, terrain, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard, tormentor, townscape, transformation, transformation scene, turn, upset, view, vista, walk, waterscape, whereabouts, wing, wingcut, woodcut, wrestling ring

Alternative forms

 * scæne

Etymology
From scene:, from  scaena:, scena:, from  σκηνή:.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: seen
 * Homophones: seen
 * Homophones: seen

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 景色 (jǐngsè)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, (7)
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: näyttämö, kohtaus (1-3), tapahtumapaikka (4)
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: סצנה (stzena)
 * Hungarian: szín, színhely, kép (1-3), jelenet (4), látvány (6)
 * Ido: ceno


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 現場 (げんば, genba)
 * Korean: 장면 (jangmyeon)
 * Latin: locus
 * Malayalam: രംഗം (ramgam) (1)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: pozorje, pozornica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: scen (1,2,7)
 * Telugu: దృశ్యం (dRSyam)

Anagrams

 * cense

Noun
scene



Adjective
scēne