'Behind the scenes' definitions:
Definition of 'Behind the scenes'
From: GCIDE
- Scene \Scene\, n. [L. scaena, scena, Gr. skhnh` a covered place, a tent, a stage.]
- 1. The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes. [1913 Webster]
- 3. So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes. [1913 Webster]
- My dismal scene I needs must act alone. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition, or action. "In Troy, there lies the scene." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The world is a vast scene of strife. --J. M. Mason. [1913 Webster]
- 5. An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view. [1913 Webster]
- Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery. [1913 Webster]
- A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 7. An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others; often, an artifical or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display. [1913 Webster]
- Probably no lover of scenes would have had very long to wait for some explosions between parties, both equally ready to take offense, and careless of giving it. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- Behind the scenes, behind the scenery of a theater; out of the view of the audience, but in sight of the actors, machinery, etc.; hence, conversant with the hidden motives and agencies of what appears to public view. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'behind the scenes'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alive to,
- appreciative of,
- apprised of,
- awake to,
- aware of,
- back to back,
- backstage,
- before an audience,
- before the footlights,
- behind,
- behind the curtain,
- behind the veil,
- camouflaged,
- causal,
- causative,
- cognizant of,
- concealed,
- conscious of,
- constitutive,
- covertly,
- decisive,
- determinative,
- disguised,
- down left,
- down right,
- downstage,
- DR,
- effectual,
- etiological,
- formative,
- hep to,
- hidden,
- imperceptible,
- in a corner,
- in a whisper,
- in back of,
- in darkness,
- in hidlings,
- in secret,
- in the background,
- in the dark,
- in the know,
- in the limelight,
- in the rear,
- in the secret,
- indiscernible,
- informed of,
- insensible,
- institutive,
- invisible,
- latent,
- let into,
- mindful of,
- no stranger to,
- nobody the wiser,
- occasional,
- off stage,
- on the stage,
- on to,
- onstage,
- originative,
- out of sight,
- pivotal,
- privy to,
- secret,
- secretly,
- seized of,
- sensible of,
- sensible to,
- sightless,
- sotto voce,
- streetwise,
- sub rosa,
- submerged,
- tandem,
- unapparent,
- unbeheld,
- unbeholdable,
- undeceived,
- under the breath,
- under the rose,
- undercover,
- underground,
- undiscernible,
- unnoticed,
- unobserved,
- unperceivable,
- unperceived,
- unrealized,
- unseeable,
- unseen,
- unviewed,
- unwitnessed,
- up left,
- upright,
- upstage,
- viewless,
- wise to,
- with bated breath