- (n.) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage.
- (n.) The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs or in which the action of a story, play or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition or action.
- (n.) An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.
- (n.) A landscape or part of a landscape; scenery.
- (v.t.) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
- (n.) An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others; often, an artifical or affected action or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.
- (n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes.
- (n.) So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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