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scenario
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun scenario has 3 senses
- scenario(n = noun.communication) Array - an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work); Array is a kind of book, playscript, script
- scenario(n = noun.location) Array - a setting for a work of art or literature; "the scenario is France during the Reign of Terror" is a kind of scene, setting
- scenario(n = noun.communication) Array - a postulated sequence of possible events; "planners developed several scenarios in case of an attack" is a kind of assumption, premise, premiss
Derived form noun scenarist1
CIDE DICTIONARY
scenario, n. [It.].
A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
scenario, n. (pl. -os)
1 an outline of the plot of a play, film, opera, etc., with details of the scenes, situations, etc.
2 a postulated sequence of future events.
1 an outline of the plot of a play, film, opera, etc., with details of the scenes, situations, etc.
2 a postulated sequence of future events.
Derivative
scenarist n. (in sense 1).
Etymology
It. (as SCENA)
THESAURUS
scenario
book, continuity, cue, design, framework, game plan, layout, libretto, lines, outline, playbook, plot, precis, project, projection, proposal, proposition, prospectus, resume, routine, scene plot, schema, score, script, shooting script, side, structure, synopsis, text
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