SCENE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scene mean? 

• SCENE (noun)
  The noun SCENE has 10 senses:

1. the place where some action occurs

2. an incident (real or imaginary)

3. the visual percept of a region

4. a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film

5. a situation treated as an observable object

6. a subdivision of an act of a play

7. a display of bad temper

8. graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept

9. the context and environment in which something is set

10. the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale

  Familiarity information: SCENE used as a noun is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCENE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The place where some action occurs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

the police returned to the scene of the crime

Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):

area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scene"):

light (an illuminated area)

dark; darkness; shadow (an unilluminated area)

field of honor (the scene of a duel)

stage (any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something)

locale; locus; venue (the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting))

Sense 2

Meaning:

An incident (real or imaginary)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

their parting was a sad scene

Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):

incident (a single distinct event)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The visual percept of a region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

aspect; panorama; prospect; scene; view; vista

Context example:

the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views

Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):

visual image; visual percept (a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scene"):

side view (a view from the side of something)

tableau (any dramatic scene)

middle distance (the part of a scene between the foreground and the background)

glimpse (a brief or incomplete view)

foreground (the part of a scene that is near the viewer)

exposure (aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces)

coast (the area within view)

background; ground (the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground)

Derivation:

scenic (used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

scene; shot

Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):

exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scene"):

outtake (a scene that is filmed but is not used in the final editing of the film)

Holonyms ("scene" is a part of...):

film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A situation treated as an observable object

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

picture; scene

Context example:

the religious scene in England has changed in the last century

Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):

situation; state of affairs (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A subdivision of an act of a play

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the first act has three scenes

Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):

dramatic composition; dramatic work (a play for performance on the stage or television or in a movie etc.)

Holonyms ("scene" is a part of...):

act (a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A display of bad temper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

conniption; fit; scene; tantrum

Context example:

he made a scene

Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):

bad temper; ill temper (a persisting angry mood)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

scene; view

Context example:

figure 2 shows photographic and schematic views of the equipment

Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):

graphic art (the arts of drawing or painting or printmaking)

Meronyms (parts of "scene"):

content; depicted object; subject (something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation)

Sense 9

Meaning:

The context and environment in which something is set

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

scene; setting

Context example:

the perfect setting for a ghost story

Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):

environment; environs; surround; surroundings (the area in which something exists or lives)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scene"):

scenario (a setting for a work of art or literature)

Sense 10

Meaning:

The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

scene; scenery

Context example:

they worked all night painting the scenery

Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):

set; stage set (representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scene"):

flat (scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting)

masking; masking piece (scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen)

set piece (a piece of scenery intended to stand alone as part of the stage setting)

backcloth; backdrop; background (scenery hung at back of stage)

 Context examples 

To Buck it was nothing new or strange, this scene of old time.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

We were, I think, all a little upset by the scene with Mr. Renfield.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I rode away, early in the morning, for the scene of my old school-days.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“The present always occupies you in such scenes—does it?” said he, with a look of doubt.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was just as I had read descriptions of such scenes in books.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in rough scenes and under strange conditions.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And it would have gone hard with him had not Collie appeared on the scene.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

No feature in the scene was extraordinary, but all was pleasing.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Act fifth opened with a stormy scene between Zara and Don Pedro.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)