DIORAMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diorama mean? 

• DIORAMA (noun)
  The noun DIORAMA has 1 sense:

1. a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene

  Familiarity information: DIORAMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIORAMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cyclorama; diorama; panorama

Hypernyms ("diorama" is a kind of...):

icon; ikon; image; picture (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)

 Context examples 

There was a bright full moon, with heavy black, driving clouds, which threw the whole scene into a fleeting diorama of light and shade as they sailed across.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)