scenery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   they worked all night painting the scenery

2. 2
   noun

   Stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene.

   To make a Sketch, or a more perfect Model of a Picture, is in the Language of Poets, to draw up the Scenary of a Play, and the reaſon is the ſame for both; to guide the Undertaking, and to preſerve the Remembrance of ſuch things, whoſe Natures are difficult to retain.

3. 3
   noun

   the appearance of a place

4. 4
   noun

   View, natural features, landscape.

Etymology

Earlier scenary, from scene + -ary, but now remodelled as scene + -ery.