scenery

/ˈsinəri/

/ˈsinəri/

Other forms: sceneries

Scenery is a word for how a place looks, especially a beautiful, outdoorsy place. Also, scenery is fake background in a play.

If you go to a place with mountains, and beautiful trees, and gorgeous skies, then it's got great scenery. Scenery is the stuff you can look at outside. If a place is plain, ugly, or desolate, you might say, "Not much scenery." Also, painters and set designers create scenery for plays. In theater, scenery could represent anything: buildings, trees, or the inside of a house. If a play has a lot of different settings, then it needs a lot of scenery.

Definitions of scenery

1. noun

   the appearance of a place
   types:

   landscape

   an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view

   seascape

   a view of the sea

   type of:

   locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity

   a surrounding or nearby region
2. noun

   the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale
   “they worked all night painting the scenery”

   synonyms: scene

   types:

   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

   coulisse, wing flat

   a flat situated in the wings

   teaser, tormenter, tormentor

   a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

   type of:

   set, stage set

   representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production