Definition of "scene"

scene

/siːn/

noun
plural scenes
1. The location of an event that attracts attention.
2. (archaic, theater) The stage.
3. (theater) The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set
4. (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.
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  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.
  1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Affair at the Novelty Theatre‎
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
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  In Troy, there lies the scene.
  c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene prologue]
  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.
  Quotations
  Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
  1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, Act I, scene v, page 1
7. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
  Quotations
  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 Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
  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.
  1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎
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
  Quotations
  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.
11. A youth subculture popular in the Anglosphere in the 2000s and early 2010s.
verb
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.
2. (intransitive, BDSM) To roleplay.

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