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say it: DOWN-stayj
downstage is a noun, adjective and adverb meaning "the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience)". It is pronounced /ˈdaʊnˌsteɪdʒ/ — DOWN-stayj. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience)
of the front half of a stage
at or toward the front of the stage
“the actors moved further and further downstage”
dramaturgy
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for downstage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.