scene

Pronunciation: /siːn/

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the place where some action occurs
  2. noun an incident (real or imaginary)
  3. noun the visual percept of a region

Etymology

From Late Middle English scene, from Middle French scene, borrowed from Latin sc(a)ena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”). Doublet of scena and skene.

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Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
area
Narrower (hyponyms)
venue, light, field of honor, darkness, stage

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