scenes
plural of “scene” — the place where some action occurs
An inflected form of scene · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,565 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,563 times across 173,643 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the place where some action occurs the police returned to the scene of the crime
- an incident (real or imaginary) their parting was a sad scene
- the visual percept of a region also: view, aspect, prospect, vista, panorama the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views
- a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film also: shot
- a situation treated as an observable object also: picture the political picture is favorablethe religious scene in England has changed in the last century
- a subdivision of an act of a play the first act has three scenes
scenes in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Oh, how often--how wearily often--have such scenes been enacted on the face of this fair world!
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social · James Runciman · Chapter 2
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At the close of that struggle, nearly every adult male had been a participator in some of its scenes.
Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters · Abraham Lincoln · Chapter 2
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Go, grace the scenes to me denied, The white Cliffs round my native shore, And the loud Ocean's swelling tide.
Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs · Robert Bloomfield · Chapter 2
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The too cruel scenes which had just taken place were to them like the absurd incidents of a horrible nightmare.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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He was seated at the piano, with his back to them, turning over the pages of a volume of Schumann’s “Forest Scenes.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 2