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English Dictionary: scenery by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scenery
n
  1. the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale; "they worked all night painting the scenery"
    Synonym(s): scenery, scene
  2. the appearance of a place
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scenery \Scen"er*y\, n.
      1. Assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings
            representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and
            arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play,
            poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or
            occurence.
  
      2. Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety
            and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of
            natural views, as woods, hills, etc.
  
                     Never need an American look beyond his own country
                     for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.
                                                                              --W. Irving.
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