backstage

1. 1.

   concealed from public view or attention

   “offstage political meetings”

   Synonymsoffstage

   Similarprivate

Other forms of backstage

plural

backstages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about backstage

What does backstage mean?

backstage means "out of view of the public; behind the scenes". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in backstage?

backstage has 2 syllables: back-stage. The stress falls on "back". In IPA it is /ˈbækˈsteɪdʒ/.

What is another word for backstage?

Close synonyms include wing, offstage, offstage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is backstage a common word?

backstage is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with backstage?

5 words rhyme with backstage. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.