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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work.
  2. n. An outline for a screenplay.
  3. n. A treatment for a screenplay.
  4. n. A screenplay.
  5. n. An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events: "In the scenario posed by many climatologists, decades of continued global warming would raise sea levels anywhere from 20 inches to more than 11 feet” ( San Francisco Chronicle).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A skeleton libretto of a dramatic work, giving the general movement of the plot and the successive appearances of the principal characters.
  2. n. The plot itself of such a work.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work.
  2. n. A screenplay itself, or an outline or a treatment of it.
  3. n. An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work)
  2. n. a setting for a work of art or literature
  3. n. a postulated sequence of possible events

Etymologies

  1. An Italian word (a derivation of scena ("scene")), from Latin scaena. See scene. (Wiktionary)
  2. Italian, from scena, scene, from Latin scaena; see scene. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. playscript
  1. book
  1. script
  1. setting
  1. scene
  1. premise
  1. assumption
  1. premiss

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  2. option
  3. environment
  1. technique
  2. situation
  3. setting
  1. capability
  2. outcome
  3. concept
  1. trend
  2. assessment
  3. objective
  1. infrastructure
  2. challenge
  3. task
  1. perspective

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  1. continuity
  1. best-case
  1. flat
  1. scenario
  1. hypothetical

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