"downstage" meaning in English

See downstage in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more downstage [comparative], most downstage [superlative]
Rhymes: -eɪdʒ Etymology: From down- + stage. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|down-|stage|text=+|tree=1}} From down- + stage. Head templates: {{en-adj}} downstage (comparative more downstage, superlative most downstage)
  1. At the front of a stage.
    Sense id: en-downstage-en-adj-WU1UTizU

Adverb

Forms: more downstage [comparative], most downstage [superlative]
Rhymes: -eɪdʒ Etymology: From down- + stage. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|down-|stage|text=+|tree=1}} From down- + stage. Head templates: {{en-adv}} downstage (comparative more downstage, superlative most downstage)
  1. Toward or at the front of a theatrical stage.
    Sense id: en-downstage-en-adv-Mgd2jMP5
  2. Towards a motion-picture or television camera.
    Sense id: en-downstage-en-adv-sjieTGnB

Noun

Rhymes: -eɪdʒ Etymology: From down- + stage. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|down-|stage|text=+|tree=1}} From down- + stage. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} downstage (uncountable)
  1. The part of a stage that is closest to the audience or camera. Tags: uncountable
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Verb

Forms: downstages [present, singular, third-person], downstaging [participle, present], downstaged [participle, past], downstaged [past]
Rhymes: -eɪdʒ Etymology: From down- + stage. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|down-|stage|text=+|tree=1}} From down- + stage. Head templates: {{en-verb}} downstage (third-person singular simple present downstages, present participle downstaging, simple past and past participle downstaged)
  1. (medicine, transitive) To restage downward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a lower stage than that found at last assessment (compare upstage). Tags: transitive Related terms: center stage, upstage, stage left, stage right
    Sense id: en-downstage-en-verb-AUBiAkUq Categories (other): Medicine, English terms prefixed with down-, Theater Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with down-: 0 10 13 28 49 Disambiguation of Theater: 10 22 2 25 40 Topics: medicine, sciences

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