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Antonyms for scenes

Grammar : Noun
Spell : seen
Phonetic Transcription : sin

Definition of scenes

Origin :
  • 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- "to shine, flicker, glimmer" (see shine (v.)).
  • 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.
  • noun setting of a performance or event
  • noun part of a dramatic performance
  • noun display of emotion
  • noun field of interest
Example sentences :
  • The scenes that followed were remarkably impressive and unparalleled.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • Some scenes have been so seared into my brain that I can never forget them.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • Behind the scenes, as we are now, Vivian, what use can there be in talking in that strain?
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • These are the sorts of scenes that harden lads, and make them fond of risks.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • The walls of this room were painted with scenes from the Trojan war.
  • Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
  • Somehow or other, it is one of the scenes that remind us most forcibly of the loss of youth!
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • One day my mother had the curiosity to come behind the scenes.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • It seemed to echo in the distance like the laughing behind the scenes on the stage.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • True, I was "behind the scenes with you;" but what did I see?
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
  • He was a vagabond and an outcast, and scenes of horror were not new to him.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon

Synonyms for scenes

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