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SCENERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale
Example:
they worked all night painting the scenery
Synonyms:
scene; scenery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("scenery" is a kind of...):
set; stage set (representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scenery"):
backcloth; backdrop; background (scenery hung at back of stage)
flat (scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting)
masking; masking piece (scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen)
set piece (a piece of scenery intended to stand alone as part of the stage setting)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The appearance of a place
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("scenery" is a kind of...):
locality; neck of the woods; neighborhood; neighbourhood; vicinity (a surrounding or nearby region)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scenery"):
landscape (an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view)
seascape (a view of the sea)
Context examples:
Meantime you can go to Italy, Germany, Switzerland, where you will, and enjoy pictures, music, scenery, and adventures to your heart's content.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“Oh for the Ecclesford theatre and scenery to try something with.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The scenery of external nature, which others regard only with admiration, he loved with ardour:—
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this way: Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. Leave Paddington by the 11:15.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had set out from Whitcross on a Tuesday afternoon, and early on the succeeding Thursday morning the coach stopped to water the horses at a wayside inn, situated in the midst of scenery whose green hedges and large fields and low pastoral hills (how mild of feature and verdant of hue compared with the stern North- Midland moors of Morton!) met my eye like the lineaments of a once familiar face.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Like most young scribblers, she went abroad for her characters and scenery, and banditti, counts, gypsies, nuns, and duchesses appeared upon her stage, and played their parts with as much accuracy and spirit as could be expected.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A short silence succeeded her leaving them; but her brother soon returned to business and Lovers' Vows, and was eagerly looking over the play, with Mr. Yates's help, to ascertain what scenery would be necessary—while Maria and Henry Crawford conversed together in an under-voice, and the declaration with which she began of, I am sure I would give up the part to Julia most willingly, but that though I shall probably do it very ill, I feel persuaded she would do it worse, was doubtless receiving all the compliments it called for.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Our journey here lost the interest arising from beautiful scenery, but we arrived in a few days at Rotterdam, whence we proceeded by sea to England.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The country in the neighbourhood of this village resembled, to a greater degree, the scenery of Switzerland; but everything is on a lower scale, and the green hills want the crown of distant white Alps which always attend on the piny mountains of my native country.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
