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• the place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred.

• "the emergency team were among the first on the scene"

Similar: location, site, place, position, point, spot, locale, whereabouts, arena, stage, set, locus,

• a sequence of continuous action in a play, film, opera, or book.

• "a scene from Tarantino's latest movie"

Similar: section, segment, part, clip, sequence,

Origin: mid 16th century (denoting a subdivision of a play, or (a piece of) stage scenery): from Latin scena, from Greek skēnē ‘tent, stage’.

• out of sight of the public at a theatre or organization.
"behind the scenes at London Zoo"

• a move to different surroundings.
"he decided he needed a change of scene"

• arrive; appear.
"he jumped back on the moped and rode off before the police could arrive on the scene"

• arrive; appear.
"the series has done obscenely well since it first hit the scene"

• not something one enjoys or is interested in.
"as for that job you mention, not my scene"

• describe a place or situation in which something is about to happen.
"he set the scene by describing the general vicinity and its history"