Scenario Noun - Definition, Pictures, Pronunciation And Usage Notes

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Definition of scenario noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

scenario noun OPAL W  /səˈnɑːriəʊ/  /səˈnæriəʊ/(plural scenarios) jump to other results

1.  a description of how things might happen in the future
   • Let me suggest a possible scenario.
   • The worst-case scenario (= the worst possible thing that could happen) would be for the factory to be closed down.
   • a nightmare scenario
   Extra Examples
   • Similar scenarios are playing out across the country.
   • The more likely scenario is that interest rates will rise.
   • Under any of these scenarios, the company will run into debt.
   Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
   • likely
   • plausible
   • possible
   • …
   verb + scenario
   • consider
   • imagine
   • construct
   • …
   scenario + verb
   • play out
   • unfold
   preposition
   • in a/​the scenario
   • under a/​the scenario
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2. a written outline of what happens in a film or play synonym synopsisWordfinder
   • actor
   • cameraman
   • cinema
   • dialogue
   • director
   • dub
   • film
   • location
   • scenario
   • sound effect
   Wordfinder
   • dialogue
   • ending
   • flashback
   • plot
   • narrate
   • scenario
   • scene
   • storyline
   • tension
   • twist
   Topics Film and theatreb2
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from Italian, from Latin scena ‘scene’.

See scenario in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee scenario in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic EnglishCheck pronunciation: scenario

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