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   scene

   /siːn/

   noun

   • 1. the place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred: "the emergency team were among the first on the scene" Similar locationsiteplacepositionpointspotlocalewhereaboutsarenastagesettechnical:locus
   • ▪ a place or setting regarded as having a particular character or making a particular impression: "a scene of carnage"
   • ▪ a landscape: "thick snow had turned the scene outside into a picture postcard" Similar viewvistaoutlookpanoramaprospectsightlandscapescenerypicturetableauspectacle
   • ▪ an incident of a specified nature: "there had already been some scenes of violence" Similar incidenteventepisodehappeningmoment
   • ▪ a representation of an incident, or the incident itself: "scenes of 1930s America"
   • ▪ a specified area of activity or interest: "one of the biggest draws on the Irish music scene" Similar area of interestfield of interestfieldinterestspecialityterritoryprovincepreservesphereworldmilieurealmdomaininformal:thing
   • ▪ a social environment frequented predominantly by gay people: informal "I don't go out into the scene now"
   • ▪ a public display of emotion or anger: "she was loath to make a scene in the office" Similar fussexhibition of oneselfperformancetantrumoutburstcommotiondisturbancerowupsetcontretempsfurorebrouhahainformal:song and danceto-docarry-on
   • 2. a sequence of continuous action in a play, film, opera, or book: "a scene from Tarantino's latest movie" Similar sectionsegmentpartclipsequence
   • ▪ a subdivision of an act of a play in which the time is continuous and the setting fixed and which does not usually involve a change of characters: "beginning at Act One, Scene One" Similar subdivisiondivisionsectionsegment
   • ▪ the pieces of scenery used in a play or opera: "scene changes"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (denoting a subdivision of a play, or (a piece of) stage scenery): from Latin scena, from Greek skēnē ‘tent, stage’.

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