scene
noun
1. the place where some action occurs
- the police returned to the scene of the crime
Definition categories: location, area, country
2. an incident (real or imaginary)
- their parting was a sad scene
Definition categories: event, incident
3. the visual percept of a region
Similar word(s): aspect, panorama, prospect, view, vista
Definition categories: thought
4. a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
Similar word(s): shot
Definition categories: communication, exposure, photo, photograph, pic, picture
5. a situation treated as an observable object
- the religious scene in England has changed in the last century
Similar word(s): picture
Definition categories: state, situation
6. a subdivision of an act of a play
- the first act has three scenes
Definition categories: communication
7. a display of bad temper
- he made a scene
Similar word(s): conniption, fit, tantrum
Definition categories: state
8. graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept
- he painted scenes from everyday life
Similar word(s): view
Definition categories: man–made
9. the context and environment in which something is set
Similar word(s): setting
Definition categories: location, environment, environs, surround, surroundings
10. the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale
- they worked all night painting the scenery
Similar word(s): scenery
Definition categories: man–made, set
Sentences with scene as a noun:
- the scene of the crime
- They stood in the centre of the scene.
- 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.
- He assessed the scene to check for any danger, and agreed it was safe.
- They saw an angry scene outside the pub.
- The crazy lady made a scene in the grocery store.
- She got into the emo scene at an early age.
verb
1. To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.