scene

Meanings

Noun

• The location of an event that attracts attention.
• the stage.
• The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set
• 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 location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up
• A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.
• A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
• 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
• An element of fiction writing.
• A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.

Verb

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

Origin

• From Middle French scene, from Latin scaena, scēna, from Ancient Greek σκηνή ("scene, stage"). scena.