scenery

Other forms of scenery

plural

sceneries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scenery

What does scenery mean?

scenery means "the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scenery?

scenery has 3 syllables: sce-ne-ry. The stress falls on "sce". In IPA it is /ˈsinɚi/.

What is another word for scenery?

Close synonyms include scene. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scenery a common word?

scenery is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.