dictionary definitions for "scenery"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [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

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Never need an American look beyond his own country
              for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.
                                                    --W. Irving.
        [1913 Webster]


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