"offstage" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: off-stage [alternative]
Etymology: From off + stage. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|off|stage}} off + stage Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} offstage (not comparable)
  1. Of or relating to that part of a stage not visible to the audience. Tags: not-comparable Translations (of that part of a stage not visible to the audience): задкулисен (zadkulisen) (Bulgarian), 舞台袖 (butai sode) (Japanese), ステージ袖 (sutēji sode) (Japanese), zakulisowy (Polish), en off (Spanish), fuera de estrado (Spanish), fuera de la tarima (Spanish), закулі́сний (zakulísnyj) (Ukrainian), залаштунко́вий (zalaštunkóvyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-offstage-en-adj-q1Y9Foif Disambiguation of 'of that part of a stage not visible to the audience': 99 1
  2. Of or relating to the private life of a celebrity. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-offstage-en-adj-38T0OQMe Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 1 57 36 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 5 38 42 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 1 42 48 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 4 43 41 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 1 41 50 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 5 41 44 11

Adverb

Forms: off-stage [alternative]
Etymology: From off + stage. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|off|stage}} off + stage Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} offstage (not comparable)
  1. Taking place offstage (as above). Tags: not-comparable Translations (taking place offstage): задкулисно (zadkulisno) (Bulgarian), zakulisowo (Polish), en off (Spanish), fuera de tarima (Spanish), fuera del estrado (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-offstage-en-adv-sAzSjjwn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 36 53 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 0 37 58 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 37 58 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 5 38 42 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 1 42 48 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 4 43 41 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 1 41 50 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 5 41 44 11

Verb

Forms: offstages [present, singular, third-person], offstaging [participle, present], offstaged [participle, past], offstaged [past], off-stage [alternative]
Etymology: From off + stage. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|off|stage}} off + stage Head templates: {{en-verb}} offstage (third-person singular simple present offstages, present participle offstaging, simple past and past participle offstaged)
  1. (transitive) To relegate (part of a play) to the offstage area, rather than showing it to the audience. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-offstage-en-verb-1Lcz~oUz Categories (other): Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 5 38 42 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 4 43 41 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 5 41 44 11

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-20 using wiktextract (cdfa371 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.