Other forms: scenes
A scene is one part of a play or film, or the place where something happened. The final scene, the scene of the crime, set the scene.
In drama a scene is a continuous stretch in one place, and several make an act. The scene of the crime is where it happened. Make a scene means to cause a public fuss. The scene, without qualification, means a social world: the music scene. Note behind the scenes, from the stage; and that the Greek skene was the hut behind the stage.
1nounsceneOne part of a play or film.~33%
“In the final scene of the film, the two lovers meet again at the station.”
2nounplaceThe place where something happened.~67%
“The police arrived at the scene of the accident within minutes.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 19 sentences found in the wild and placed 9 of them on a sense (10 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
scene is a division or a place.
Latin scaena comes from Greek skene, a tent or hut behind the stage where actors changed. Scenery and proscenium come from the same hut.
Ancient Greek
σκηνή — scene, stage
Latin
scaena
Middle French
scene
Middle English
scene
English, today
scene
From Late Middle English scene, from Middle French scene, borrowed from Latin scaena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (“scene, stage”). a doublet of scena and skene.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA