Meanings
plural dioramas
- A three-dimensional display of a scenery, often having a painted background in front of which models are arranged, e.g. in a museum where stuffed animals are presented against a painted landscape.
With his diorama-like compositions and tales of longing — usually for a loving family — Wes Anderson has taken audiences most everywhere on the planet: Asia and Europe, New York City and the American southwest, a fox’s hole and an island inhabited by dogs.
2025 May 29, Alissa Wilkinson, “‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Review: Benicio Del Toro Plans to Save His Soul”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchdiorama
- Frenchdiorama
- Englishdiorama
Borrowed from French diorama.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian диора́ма
- диора́ма (dioráma)a three-dimensional display of a scenery
Catalan diorama
- dioramaa three-dimensional display of a scenery
Chinese Mandarin 景觀模型 /景观模型
- 景觀模型 /景观模型a three-dimensional display of a scenery
Finnish dioraama
- dioraamaa three-dimensional display of a scenery
French diorama
- dioramaa three-dimensional display of a scenery
German Diorama
- Dioramaa three-dimensional display of a scenery
Hungarian dioráma
- diorámaa three-dimensional display of a scenery
Icelandic þrívíddarmódel
- þrívíddarmódela three-dimensional display of a scenery
Italian diorama
- dioramaa three-dimensional display of a scenery
Persian شهر فرنگ
- شهر فرنگ (šahr-e farang)a three-dimensional display of a scenery
Polish diorama
- dioramaa three-dimensional display of a scenery
Portuguese diorama
- dioramaa three-dimensional display of a scenery
Romanian dioramă
- dioramăa three-dimensional display of a scenery
Russian диора́ма
- диора́ма (dioráma)a three-dimensional display of a scenery
Spanish diorama
- dioramaa three-dimensional display of a scenery
Swedish diorama
- dioramaa three-dimensional display of a scenery
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with diorama
All rhymes →Anagrams
Cite this entry
diorama. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diorama
“diorama.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diorama. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “diorama,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diorama.
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