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scenery


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scenery  \Scen"er*y\,  n. 
  1.  Assemblage  of  scenes;  the  paintings  and  hangings 
  representing  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  scenery 
  n  1:  the  painted  structures  of  a  stage  set  that  are  intended  to 
  suggest  a  particular  locale;  "they  worked  all  night 
  painting  the  scenery"  [syn:  {scene}] 
  2:  the  appearance  of  a  place 




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