Usually means: Setting where events or actions occur.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word scene:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. scene: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scene: Merriam-Webster
  3. scene: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scene: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scene: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scene, scene: Wordnik
  8. scene: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scene: Wiktionary
  10. scene: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scene: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scene: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scene: Dictionary.com
  14. scene: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scene: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Scene (BDSM), Scene (British TV series), Scene (disambiguation), Scene (drama), Scene (fiction), Scene (film), Scene (filmmaking), Scene (loyalty program), Scene (perception), Scene (software), Scene (subculture), Scene, The Scene (Dutch band), The Scene (miniseries), The Scene (performance venue), The Scene (play), The Scene, The scene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scene: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scene: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scene: Rhymezone
  20. scene: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scene: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. scene: FreeDictionary.org
  23. scene: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scene: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. scene: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  4. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scene (disambiguation), scene: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scene (disambiguation), scene: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. scene: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Scene (cultural): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. SCENE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. scene: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scene: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Scene (Kid), Scene, scene, the scene: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  2. scene: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The location of an event that attracts attention.
noun:  (archaic, theater) The stage.
noun:  (theater) The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set.
noun:  (theater, film, television, radio) A part of a dramatic work that is set in the same place or time. In the theatre, generally a number of scenes constitute an act.
noun:  The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up.
noun:  A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.
noun:  A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
noun:  An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often, an artificial or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.
noun:  An element of fiction writing.
noun:  A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.
noun:  A youth subculture popular in the Anglosphere in the 2000s and early 2010s.
noun:  (BDSM) A BDSM fantasy that is acted out.
verb:  (transitive) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
verb:  (intransitive, BDSM) To roleplay.

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