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# scenery

«scenery» in Mova's school dictionary: **The natural features of a place, like hills, rivers…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (scenery — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The natural features of a place, like hills, rivers, trees and sky, especially when beautiful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scenery/#m1)

2) (theatre) The painted backgrounds and objects on a stage that show where the play is happening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scenery/#m2)

3) (idiom) "A change of scenery" means going somewhere different for a rest or new start. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scenery/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and geography, people travel to enjoy scenery — mountains, lakes and coasts. In drama, pupils paint scenery for the school play. In stories, describing the scenery helps the reader picture the setting. Phrases: beautiful scenery, stunning scenery, a change of scenery, part of the scenery.

### examples

- The scenery in Scotland is amazing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scenery/#x1)
- We painted the scenery for the school play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scenery/#x2)
- Look out of the window and enjoy the scenery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scenery/#x3)
- Dad needed a change of scenery after a hard week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scenery/#x4)
- The stage scenery fell over in the middle of the show! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scenery/#x5)
- The mountain scenery was covered in snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scenery/#x6)
- The sound of these bells is often heard amidst Alpine scenery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scenery/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: "the scenery", "beautiful scenery" — never "a scenery" or "sceneries". For one view, say "a view" or "a scene". Spelling: scenery (not "scenary").

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scenery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scenery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.