scenery
15
3.0
- noun
- /ˈsiːnəri/
- Specialized
:
decorado
- Hide behind that piece of scenery.
- stage scenery
- scenery and props
- scenery and costumes
In fact, I was a Carpenter and then I became a scenery Carpenter.
- In fact, I was a Carpenter and then I became a scenery Carpenter.
- This show, like many other shows, has had its ebbs and flows, changes of scenery, it's eras.
- And we do the scenery, and we start making costumes, and we start making wooden swords.
- All right, and we're back updated, updated scenery too.
Examples
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We built the Russian village stage set, scenery.
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Augustine is sitting, his back resting on a stack of scenery flats propped up against a wall.
Fiction book (1997) -
Stand there like scenery for a play that was never performed.
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The group may also create scenery as a visual environment for the character.
Academic text (2002) -
I saw it as a piece of scenery from the theater.
Fiction book (1995) -
We have to get costumes, scenery, have to find out who shoots who...
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Movable landscape scenery, and behind it an open space as if the path leads into the valley.
Academic text (1998) -
They tried to arrange some scenery.
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A performance could be planned in which groups dramatize the book with student-created scenery and costumes.
Academic text (2002) -
The director asked the crew to quickly set up the scenery for the opening scene of the play.
Synonyms
416
6.0
The scenery and objects used on a stage or film
268
2.1
The area behind the main subject in a picture, on a stage, or on a screen
80
3.9
A painted cloth or scene at the back of a stage showing where the story happens
48
3.7
Painted parts of a stage that show a place
19
3.0
The scenery and props arranged to show a place in a play or film
3
3.6
The background and objects on a stage that show where and when a play happens
1
3.6
The arrangement of background and objects on a stage to show where the story happens
The way things like the background, objects, and lights are arranged in a film or play to create a mood
Idioms
- Informal
1
9.6
To act in a very exaggerated way to get attention in plays or films
Compounds
How Elaborate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word scenery comes from scene, which means 'stage' or 'place for action', and it originally meant the painted backgrounds used on a stage. So stage scenery still means the sets and painted backgrounds that show where the action happens.