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      scene
      noun
      The location of an event that attracts attention.
      (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.
      The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up.
      (theater) The decorations; furnishings, and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set.
      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.
      A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.
      (uncountable) A youth subculture popular in the Anglosphere in the 2000s and early 2010s.
      (BDSM) A fantasy that is acted out.
      An element of fiction writing.
      (archaic, theater) The stage.
      verb
      (transitive) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
      (intransitive, BDSM) To roleplay.
      Roots
      skenescen- · Greek · stage, scene
      Synonyms for scene
      scenerynpicturenpanoramansettingnviewntableaunbackdropnstagencycloramanlandscapendioramanincidentn
      Words related to scene
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