scenario

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 9.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.
2. noun An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work.
3. noun A screenplay itself, or an outline or a treatment of it.

Similar words

plot storyline story setting context script overview pattern scene example

Often followed by

is of in for that and was to

Word family

scenari scenarios