Legal Definition and Related Resources of Scene
Meaning of Scene
Synonyms of Scene
noun
- act
- arena
- background
- display
- episode
- eyereach
- eyeshot
- field
- landscape
- locale
- locality
- location
- locus
- panorama
- place
- range
- scaena
- scope
- setting
- sight
- site
- spectacle
- sphere
- stage
- stage setting
- surroundings
- theater
- view
- vista
- whereabouts Associated Concepts: scene of an accident
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Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Scene
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1530s, “subdivision of an act of a play,” also “stage-setting,” from Middle French scène (14c.), from Latin scaena, scena “scene, stage of a theater,” from Greek skene “wooden stage for actors,” also “that which is represented on stage,” originally “tent or booth,” related to skia “shadow, shade,” via notion of “something that gives shade,” from PIE root *skai- (2) “to shine, flicker, glimmer” (see shine (verb)). According to Beekes’ sources, the Greek word “originally denoted any light construction of cloth hung between tree branches in order to provide shadow, under which one could shelter, sleep, celebrate festivities, etc.” Meaning “material apparatus of a theatrical stage” is from 1540s. Meaning “place in which the action of a literary work occurs” is attested from 1590s; general (non-literary) sense of “place where anything is done or takes place” is recorded from 1590s. Hence U.S. slang sense of “setting or milieu for a specific group or activity,” attested from 1951 in Beat jargon. Meaning “stormy encounter between two or more persons” is attested from 1761. Behind the scenes “having knowledge of affairs not apparent to the public” (1660s) is an image from the theater, “amid actors and stage machinery” (out of sight of the audience). Scene of the crime (1923) first attested in Agatha Christie.
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