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DIORAMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does diorama mean?
• DIORAMA (noun)
The noun DIORAMA has 1 sense:
1. a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene
Familiarity information: DIORAMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("diorama" is a kind of...):
icon; ikon; image; picture (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)
Context examples
There was a bright full moon, with heavy black, driving clouds, which threw the whole scene into a fleeting diorama of light and shade as they sailed across.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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