scène

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See also: scene

Dutch

Etymology

From French scène.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛːnə/
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Noun

scène f (plural scènes, diminutive scènetje n)

  1. scene, stage

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French scene (first attested in 1486), borrowed from Latin scaena, scena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”).

Pronunciation

Noun

scène f (plural scènes)

  1. stage (where performances are held)
    Synonyms: planches, plateau
  2. scene (all senses)
    1. location of a play's plot
      La scène est dans un jardin.
      The scene is in a garden.
    2. location, literal or figurative, of any event
      la scène politique nationale ― the national political scene
      • 2000, Françoise Gaspard, “Les femmes dans les relations internationales [Women in international relations]”, in Politique étrangère‎, volume 65, numbers 3—4, page 731:
        Les femmes ont longtemps été totalement absentes de l’histoire des relations internationales et de la scène diplomatique. A cet égard, le siècle qui s’achève ne marque, au mieux, que l’infléchissement tardif d’un phénomène qui connut, au XIXe siècle, une sorte d’apogée.
        Women have long been totally absent from the history of international relations and from the diplomatic scene. In this regard, the century which now comes to an end merely marks, at best, a belated change from a phenomenon which reached a certain apogee in the nineteenth century.
    3. section of an act in a play
      la troisième scène du quatrième acte
      the third scene of the fourth act
    4. scene, sight; sequence of (dramatic or interesting) events
      Il était ému par la scène. ― He was moved by the scene.
      une scène qui la bouleversa ― a scene which troubled her
    5. scene; display of strong (negative) emotion; fight, quarrel
      Elle lui a fait une scène terrible à propos de cette décision, prise sans son accord.
      She made a terrible scene towards him about this decision he had taken without her agreement.
  3. drama, the theater (as an art form)
    Corneille, Racine, Molière, Voltaire ont illustré la scène française.
    Corneille, Racine, Molière, Voltaire have glorified French theater.

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Descendants

  • → Persian: سن (sen)

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Norman

Etymology

From Latin scaena, scena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”).

Noun

scène f (plural scènes)

  1. scene (event; happening)
    • 2010, Mêfie-té des Monstres: Tchiques légendes dé Jèrri, Jersey: Le Don Balleine, L'Office du Jèrriais, →ISBN, page 6:
      Înmaginne la scène
      Imagine the scene
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