scène
Appearance
See also: scene
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]scène f (plural scènes, diminutive scènetje n)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French scene (first attested in 1486), borrowed from Latin scaena, scena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /sɛn/
Audio (Paris): (file) Audio (Quebec, Montreal): (file) - Homophones: Cène, saine, saines, scènes, seine, seines, senne, sennes, Seine
- Rhymes: -ɛn
Noun
[edit]scène f (plural scènes)
- stage (where performances are held)
- scene (all senses)
- location of a play's plot
- La scène est dans un jardin.
- The scene is in a garden.
- location, literal or figurative, of any event
- la scène politique nationale ― the national political scene
- 2000, Françoise Gaspard, “Les femmes dans les relations internationales [Women in international relations]”, in Politique étrangère[1], volume 65, numbers 3—4, page 731:
- Les femmes ont longtemps été totalement absentes de l’histoire des relations internationales et de la scène diplomatique. A cet égard, le siècle qui s’achève ne marque, au mieux, que l’infléchissement tardif d’un phénomène qui connut, au XIXe siècle, une sorte d’apogée.
- Women have long been totally absent from the history of international relations and from the diplomatic scene. In this regard, the century which now comes to an end merely marks, at best, a belated change from a phenomenon which reached a certain apogee in the nineteenth century.
- section of an act in a play
- la troisième scène du quatrième acte
- the third scene of the fourth act
- scene, sight; sequence of (dramatic or interesting) events
- Il était ému par la scène. ― He was moved by the scene.
- une scène qui la bouleversa ― a scene which troubled her
- scene; display of strong (negative) emotion; fight, quarrel
- Elle lui a fait une scène terrible à propos de cette décision, prise sans son accord.
- She made a terrible scene towards him about this decision he had taken without her agreement.
- location of a play's plot
- drama, the theater (as an art form)
- Corneille, Racine, Molière, Voltaire ont illustré la scène française.
- Corneille, Racine, Molière, Voltaire have glorified French theater.
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Persian: سن (sen)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “scène”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin scaena, scena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”).
Noun
[edit]scène f (plural scènes)
- scene (event; happening)
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