SCENERY

scenery, scene

(noun) the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale; “they worked all night painting the scenery”

scenery

(noun) the appearance of a place

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

scenery (countable and uncountable, plural sceneries)

View, natural features, landscape.

Stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene.

Source: Wiktionary


Scen"er*y, n.

1. Assemblage of scenes; the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.

2. Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural views, as woods, hills, etc. Never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery. W. Irving.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 November 2024

ONCHOCERCIASIS

(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America


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Hawaii and California are the only two U.S. states that grow coffee plants commercially.

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