scenario Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work)
  2. noun a setting for a work of art or literature
    • the scenario is France during the Reign of Terror
  3. noun a postulated sequence of possible events
    • planners developed several scenarios in case of an attack

WordNet

Sce*na"ri*o noun
Etymology
It.
Definitions
  1. A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.

Webster 1913