Definitions for dioramas

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dioramas di·o·ram·a

Spelling: [dahy-uh-ram-uh, -rah-m

IPA: /ˌdaɪ əˈræm ə, -ˈrɑ mə/

Dioramas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 332 anagrams from letters in dioramas (aadimors).

Definitions for dioramas

noun

1. a scene, often in miniature, reproduced in three dimensions by placing objects, figures, etc., in front of a painted background.
2. a life-size display representing a scene from nature, a historical event, or the like, using stuffed wildlife, wax figures, real objects, etc., in front of a painted or photographed background.
3. a spectacular picture, partly translucent, for exhibition through an aperture, made more realistic by various illuminating devices.
4. a building or room, often circular, for exhibiting such a scene or picture, especially as a continuous unit along or against the walls.

Origin of dioramas

1815-25; French, equivalent to di- di-³ + Greek (h)órāma view (horā-, variant stem of horân to see, look + -ma noun suffix denoting the result of action)

Examples for dioramas

The latest stages of the process might be represented by a diorama.

Mrs. Darcy wants a circus-poster, or the canvas of a diorama.

The diorama shows bananas being harvested and trees being cut.

Such was the diorama as it was first exhibited in London to admiring crowds.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

The finest part of this diorama is the representation of interior parts of buildings.

The diorama shows coffee berries being dried in the sun and in the shade in preparation for marketing the coffee.

That building was intended for the exhibition of the diorama.

It is an answer that rings down the curtain on the diorama called "Cruikshank the journalist."

On the 3rd of March 1839 the diorama, together with the work on which Daguerre was then engaged, was destroyed by fire.