diorama
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- noun
- /ˌdaɪəˈrɑːmə/
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diorama
- For example, one room offers dioramas showing amazingly detailed scenes from famous Grimm tales.
- a museum diorama
- figures in the diorama
- life-sized dioramas
And in these video dioramas of a life well lived, there are no people except for him.
- And in these video dioramas of a life well lived, there are no people except for him.
- This is a fifth grade diorama that I am making, but it's a it's a house anyway.
- Matt purchase this with company money and he's going to build it and take it home because he wants this for his Lego diorama.
- So that we were told to bring, bring the items on the third of which was a Thursday, which was the, his diorama and his, his portfolio.
Examples
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The diorama has been a popular genre in museum exhibitions for nearly a century.
Academic text (2001) -
You want extra credit on your diorama or not?
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- Like a diorama for a science fair?
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OK, so here we go, my first diorama project since elementary school.
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For Gusty, it is like being inside an enormous diorama of her own life.
Fiction book (1995) -
We were cutting out two-dimensional polar bears for a diorama I had to make for social studies.
Fiction book (1998) -
Each of the four triumphal processions was a masterpiece of pageantry, complete with floats and painted dioramas of scenes from the campaigns.
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The teacher displayed a beautiful diorama of the rainforest during the science fair.
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Students often create a diorama to illustrate historical events for their presentations.
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She visited the museum to see the detailed diorama depicting life in ancient Egypt.
Synonyms
A small model showing a tiny scene like a village or landscape
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Diorama comes from Greek parts dia- 'through' and -orama 'view', the same idea you see in panorama. Think of it as a 'view through' a small stage, which fits a three-dimensional scene or model you can look into.