scenario

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Scenario \Sce*na"ri*o\, n. [It.]
   A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an
   opera.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "scenario":
      book, continuity, cue, design, framework, game plan, layout,
      libretto, lines, outline, playbook, plot, precis, project,
      projection, proposal, proposition, prospectus, resume, routine,
      scene plot, schema, score, script, shooting script, side,
      structure, synopsis, text

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