scene

The location of an event that attracts attention.

Interjection

  1. A notice to actors that their performance has ended.
    • Near-synonym: cut!

    Synonyms: end scene! and scene! cut

Origin

From Late Middle English scene, from Middle French scene, borrowed from Latin sc(a)ena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”). Doublet of scena and skene.

Forms

scene! scæne

Related

mise en scène

Noun

  1. The location of an event that attracts attention.
    • the scene of the crime
    • Lily was pronounced dead at the scene.
  2. The stage.
    • They stood in the centre of the scene.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
    • 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.
  5. The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up.
    • In Troy, there lies the scene. - c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
    • The world is a vast scene of strife. - c. 1810, John M. Mason, On Religious Controversy:
  6. 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.
    • Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! - 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 56:
  7. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
    • A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, / Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn. - 1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and...
    • 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...
  8. 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.
    • 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. - 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Kolsterheim:
  9. An element of fiction writing.
  10. 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.
    • Indie just isn't my scene.
  11. A youth subculture popular in the Anglosphere in the 2000s and early 2010s.

    Coordinate Terms: scene queen scene kid

    1. (aesthetic) (by extension) An aesthetic characterized by vibrant, often neon colors, heavily teased and brightly dyed hair with long bangs, skinny jeans, band tees, and layered accessories like studded belts and plastic jewelry; heavily influenced by MySpace culture, emo, pop-punk, and electronic music, with a strong emphasis on digital self-expression and a playful, rebellious energy.

      Coordinate Terms: scene queen scene kid

  12. A fantasy that is acted out.

Forms

scenes scæne

Hyponyms

backscene crime scene cut scene deleted scene demo scene demoscene emuscene love scene monoscene nativity scene primal scene sex scene subscene

Related

proscenium

Derived

behind-the-scenes change of scene dark alternative scene drop-scene enter the scene interscene make a scene midscene mise en scene multiscene nonscene on-scene on the scene scenecore scenecraft scene-dock sceneful scene graph scenegraph scene kid sceneless scenelet sceneman sceneness

Verb

  1. To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
  2. To roleplay.
  3. Short for demoscene.

Forms

scenes scening scened scæne