Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The location of an event that attracts attention. · The stage. · The decorations; furnishings, and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set. · 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.
A notice to actors that their performance has ended.
To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display. · To roleplay. · Short for demoscene.
From Late Middle English scene, from Middle French scene, borrowed from Latin sc(a)ena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”). Doublet of scena and skene.
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