scenery
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- noun
- /ˈsiːnəri/
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paisaje
- You can't see this sort of scenery down south!
- beautiful scenery
- spectacular scenery
- natural scenery
I breathe in the air. I look at the lush scenery,
- I breathe in the air. I look at the lush scenery,
- Amazing food, fascinating history, really kind people, Beautiful, beautiful, epic scenery.
- It feels more as if I'm on a, on a riverboat and watching people and scenery go by.
- Whistler, BC is another example and the name is almost synonymous with skiing and a stunning Alpine scenery.
- So it was like being on the same road and I got the scenery to change from icy, you know, views out my window, to green and pastoral, to gilded and gold.
- You just stop off, grab an ice cream, like like you're going past this amazing scenery, loads of cool kind of crazy people there playing music and and just selling street art.
- I'm going to go find a piece of land in like Colorado or Montana or Idaho somewhere, like just beautiful scenery.
- And it's a post in Italy, OK, of scenery, and you captioned it.
- We're walking down the street with his luggage and he's showing us a different scenery and so forth.
Examples
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So now, yes, he may be taking taking advantage of his alone time and enjoying the scenery, all right.
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We cannot tell if she is lost in the scenery or in her own world.
Fiction book (1993) -
All he wanted, really, was a change of scenery, a place to spend the summer.
Fiction book (1996) -
Have a nice walk, enjoy the scenery.
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See the people, the wildlife, and the scenery of the great land.
Academic text (1994) -
Well, it's mighty pretty scenery down there.
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Scenery like this makes me wish I could paint.
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In any case, I hadn't come for people-watching but for the scenery, which was grand.
Fiction book (1992) -
For most of them, enthralled by the spectacular scenery, nothing here must have seemed amiss.
Academic text (1998) -
The scenery in the national park includes mountains, forests, and lakes that attract many visitors.
Synonyms
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What you can see from a particular place
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The plants, animals, land, and weather that are not made by people
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1.9
A view of the land, sea, or sky seen from one place
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A view of land and nature seen at once, often beautiful
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Land and views outside towns and cities with fields and farms
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A view of a wide area like hills or a city
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A wide clear view of a large area seen from a high place
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A view of a city, often seen in a photo or painting
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A beautiful view of land or water that attracts visitors
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A view of a town showing its buildings, streets, and open spaces in photos or paintings
A wide view of land and nature, like hills and fields
Idioms
- Informal
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9.6
To act in a very exaggerated way to get attention in plays or films
Compounds
How Scenic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word scenery comes from the common word scene, which means 'stage' or 'place for action', and the ending -ery turns it into a thing made of scenes. So natural scenery is like a series of stage pictures, the hills, trees and sky you see together.