scene

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The place where something, especially an event or accident, happens.

   The police returned to the scene of the crime.

2. 2
   noun

   A part of a play, film, or book in which the action happens in one place.

   The first act has three scenes.

3. 3
   noun

   A view or situation as you see it.

   It was a peaceful scene by the lake.

4. 4
   noun

   A loud or angry display of emotion in public.

   Please don't make a scene in the restaurant.

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Simplified etymology

Scene entered English in the late Middle Ages and ultimately comes from Greek skēnē, “tent” or “stage,” which is also the source of scenario, scenery, and scenic. Its theatrical associations produced the early 19th-century sense “a public display of emotion or anger.”

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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