SCENERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scenery mean? 

• SCENERY (noun)
  The noun SCENERY has 2 senses:

1. the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale

2. the appearance of a place

  Familiarity information: SCENERY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCENERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

scene; scenery

Context example:

they worked all night painting the scenery

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 

Holmes had been buried in the morning papers all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he threw them down and began to admire the scenery.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And you, my friend, would be far more amused with the journal of Clerval, who observed the scenery with an eye of feeling and delight, than in listening to my reflections.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Geese, young ladies," returns Uncle, in a tone that keeps us quiet till Flo settles down to enjoy the Flirtations of Captain Cavendish, and I have the scenery all to myself.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Many parts of our best plays are independent of scenery.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You are not familiar with Cambridgeshire scenery, are you?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is very true, said Marianne, that admiration of landscape scenery is become a mere jargon.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

After leaving you at the station I went for a charming walk through some admirable Surrey scenery to a pretty little village called Ripley, where I had my tea at an inn, and took the precaution of filling my flask and of putting a paper of sandwiches in my pocket.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My eye still roved over the sullen swell and along the moor-edge, vanishing amidst the wildest scenery, when at one dim point, far in among the marshes and the ridges, a light sprang up.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There were also some rather commonplace pictures of river scenery, a paint-box, a box of colored chalks, some brushes, that curved bone which lies upon my inkstand, a volume of Baxter's 'Moths and Butterflies,' a cheap revolver, and a few cartridges.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the mingled reality and mystery of the whole show, the influence upon me of the poetry, the lights, the music, the company, the smooth stupendous changes of glittering and brilliant scenery, were so dazzling, and opened up such illimitable regions of delight, that when I came out into the rainy street, at twelve o'clock at night, I felt as if I had come from the clouds, where I had been leading a romantic life for ages, to a bawling, splashing, link-lighted, umbrella-struggling, hackney-coach-jostling, patten-clinking, muddy, miserable world.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)