stage set
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3.6
- noun
- /steɪdʒ sɛt/
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decorado
- The final project for the first year was the readers' theater stage set.
Examples
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Everything is in its right place, as if these details were props, the room a stage set, the walls a carefully elaborated backdrop.
Academic text (2010) -
The whole row of houses seemed hardly deeper than a stage set, presided over by telephone poles with endless parallel wires.
Fiction book (1995) -
The room felt as warm and close as the stage set for a production of No Exit.
Fiction book (1998) -
We built the Russian village stage set, scenery.
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In addition to writing responses, they are asked to draw a stage set for a production of the script.
Academic text (1999) -
The theme of the ball was "Southern Belle," and she described the stage set as a "plantation house."
Academic text (2005) -
All the lights were on, but the room, like a dilapidated stage set awaiting its actors, was empty.
Fiction book (1993) -
The stage set is an expressionistic castle out of the first Universal Frankenstein.
Fiction book (2000) -
It was a very theatrical interior, very much a stage set for a particular kind of elite corporate entertaining.
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The designer created an intricate stage set that transported the audience to another world.
Synonyms
416
6.0
The scenery and objects used on a stage or film
19
3.0
The scenery and props arranged to show a place in a play or film
15
3.0
Painted backgrounds and pieces on a stage that show where a play happens
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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
How Elaborate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'scenery and arrangement for a performance' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'stage' (performance area) with 'set' (the physical scenery), since 'set' already denotes the scenery used on a stage. This is a straightforward noun–noun composition and a common, cross-linguistic concept, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Stage set comes from work in the theater, where crew members would set the stage by putting up scenery and props to make the place for the story. That's why stage set means the scenery and arrangement used to create the 'setting' for a play or film.