SCENA

Definitions: SCENA

SCENA

Noun

1. An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria.

2. A scene in an opera.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SCENA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references)

Etymology: Scena \Sce"na\, noun. [Italian]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: SCENA

Specialty definitions using "SCENA": Script Girl. (references)

Etymologies containing "SCENA": Postscenium. (references)

Non-English Usage: "SCENA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (act, locale, scene, set, stage, theater, theatre), Serbo-Croatian (locale, scene, stage).

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Chi è di scena (1962)

L' Ultima scena (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Dizionario Verdiano: Le Opere, I Cantanti, I Personaggi, I Direttori D'Orchestra E Di Scena, Gli Scenografi, Gli Impresari, I Librettisti, (reference) Edipo Coloneo (Edizione Critica Delle Opere Di Gioachino Rossini: Sezione Seconda-musiche Di Scena E Cantate, Vol. 1) (reference) Guercino, Racconti Di Paese: Il Paesaggio E La Scena Popolare Nei Luoghi E Nell'epoca Di Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (reference) La Scena Digitale: Nuovi Media Per La Danza (reference) Le esposizioni universali, 1851-1900 : il progresso in scena (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"SCENA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SCENA" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "SCENA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Thai		ตอนของละครเพลง. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "SCENA": scenario, scenarios, scenarist, scenarists, scenas. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "SCENA" (pronounced 'Sce"na'): Abuna, Achatina, Alcanna, Alhenna, Alumna, Amphirhina, Amphisbaena, Angina, Anna, Anona, Antenna, arena, Avena, Avifauna, Banana, Becuna, BELLADONNA, Bellona, Carina, Casuarina, Catena, Cavatina, Concertina, Coquina, Cromorna, Curtana, Czarevna, Czarina, Damiana, DIANA, Discina, Diurna, Donna, Dracaena, Duenna, Echidna, Erythrina, Etna, Farina, Fauna, Galena, Gehenna, Gena, Globigerina, Glucina, Guana, Guna, Haematophlina, Hemina, henna, Hosanna, Hydrina, HYENA, iguana, Ingena, Jambolana, Kerana, Khenna, Krishna, lacuna, Lagena, Lena, Levana, Limacina, Linguatulina, Littorina, Luna, Madonna, Madrina, manna, Marena, Marikina, Meandrina, melaena, melena, Meminna, Mishna, Molybdena, Mona, Monorhina, Muraena, myna, Nagana, Nemertina, Neritina, Ngina, Nicotiana, Nirvana, Ocarina, Oculina, Orbulina, ozena, Paludina, Parapherna, Pedicellina, Pediculina, Penna, Persona, Phagedena, Phalaena, Philopena, Piscina, Poinciana, Polycystina, Pomona, Pseudo-china, Pseudo-galena, Puna, Purana, Pyrena, Quinquina, Rana, Salamandrina, Salina, Sarcina, savanna, scarlatina, semolina, senna, Seraphina, sienna, signorina, Sonatina, Strepsorhina, sultana, Sunna, Tel-el-Amarna, Tellina, Thana, tramontana, trichina, Tridacna, Trona, ulna, Vaccina, Vacuna, vagina, Varuna, Velutina, Vena, Vitrina, Vitro-di-trina, Wenona, Zenana, Zona. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: acnes, canes.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-s"
	-1 letter: aces, acne, anes, cane, cans, case, sane, scan.
	-2 letters: ace, ane, can, ens, nae, sac, sae, sea, sec, sen.
	-3 letters: ae, an, as, en, es, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-s"
	+1 letter: ascend, ascent, caners, canoes, casein, casern, centas, cleans, cranes, dances, enacts, encase, encash, hances, incase, lances, naches, nacres, nances, oceans, pecans, rances, scenas, seance, secant, seneca, stance, uncase, usance.
	+2 letters: absence, accents, acetins, achenes, acinose, acnodes, acumens, amnesic, ancones, ancress, anlaces, arcsine, arsenic, ascends, ascents, askance, beacons, cajones, calends, canapes, cancels, cancers, candies, candles, cangues, canines, cankers, cannels, canners, canters, cantles, careens, carnets, carneys, carnies, caseins, caserne, caserns, catenas, caverns, ceasing, censual, centals, cetanes, chaines, chances, changes, chasten, cineast, cinemas, cleanse, coarsen, corneas, cravens, dancers, deacons, decanes, decants, descant, encages, encamps, encased, encases, enchase, encinas, enclasp, enfaces, enlaces, fancies, fascine, fiances, glances, incages, incased, incases, inlaces, inscape, jaunces, lacunes, lancers, lancets, launces, manches, menaces, nancies, narcose, nascent, nectars, nuances, nutcase, octanes, pechans, prances, ranches, recanes, recants, sanicle, scalene, scaleni, scanned, scanner, scanted, scanter, seances, secants, senecas, slacken, snacked, sonance, spancel, stances, tanrecs, tenaces, trances, uncages, uncakes, uncased, uncases, unlaces, usances, usaunce.
	+3 letters: abducens, absences, acarines, acescent, acetones, achiness, acidness, aconites, acrogens, advances, agencies, alencons, alnicoes, amnesiac, amnesics, amnestic, analects, ancestor, ancestry, ancients, archines, archness, arcsines, arsenics, ascended, ascender, asthenic, balances, blackens, blanches, brackens, branches, brechans, brisance, cabezons, cabinets, cadences, cadenzas, caffeins, caginess, calcines, calmness, calzones, canalise, canaries, candelas, candlers, canellas, canister, canities, canniest, canoeist, canoness, canonise, canopies, canteens, canvased, canvaser, canvases, canzones, capelans, capelins, capeskin, capstone, carbines, carlines, carmines, carnages, casement, casernes, castanet, caterans, cayennes, celadons, cenacles, centares, centaurs, centavos, centrals, ceratins, cesarean, cesarian, chalones, chancels, chancres, changers, channels, chanters, chanteys, chanties, charnels, chastens, chazzens, cheapens, chessman, chicanes, cineaste, cineasts, cisterna, clangers, clansmen, cleaners, cleanest, cleansed, cleanser, cleanses, cleanups, coagents, coarsens, cocaines, codeinas, coenacts, cognates, coinages, concaves, conceals, congeals, cosecant, cowbanes, cragsmen, cranches, crankest, crankles, crannies, creasing, creatins, cremains, cyanates, cyanides, cyanines, cyanites, cyanosed, cyanoses, decagons, descants, diocesan, distance, durances, echidnas, enactors, encashed, encashes, encasing, enchains, enchants, enchased, enchaser, enchases, enclasps, enclaves, endocast, endosarc, enhances, entastic, escaping, estancia, etchants, eucaines, evanesce, exsecant, faciends, faiences, fanciers, fanciest, fascines, feasance, fiancees, finances, furnaces, ganaches, glancers, hackneys, haunches, inarches, increase, inscapes, insectan, instance, issuance, jaconets, joyances, knackers, kneecaps, laciness, lactones, lacunose, lanciers, launches, lucarnes, lunacies, machines, magnesic, manacles, manchets, melanics, menacers, meniscal, nacelles, nacreous, narceins, narcoses, nascence, nascency, nautches, newscast, nictates, notecase, nuclease, nuisance, nutcases, opencast, packness, painches, panaceas, panaches, pancakes, pancreas, pandects, panicles, panoches, paunches, pelicans, pemicans, penances, pinnaces, piscinae, planches, prancers, raciness, ranchers, raunches, reascend, reascent, recleans, recusant, reenacts, romances, salicine, salience, saliency, sanicles, sapience, sapiency, sarcenet, saucepan, scalenus, scalepan, scandent, scanners, scantest, scantier, scanties, scavenge, scenario, scenical, sciaenid, scrannel, secantly, semantic, slackens, snatched, snatcher, snatches, sonances, sonicate, spaceman, spacemen, spancels, stanched, stancher, stanches, sycamine, tacnodes, tacrines, tetanics, tranches, transect, unbraces, uncashed, uncasked, uncaused, unchaste, uncrates, unifaces, unscaled, usaunces, vaccines, valances, valences, vendaces, vesicant, zincates.
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