forestage

Other forms of forestage

plural

forestages·

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 forestage

What does forestage mean?

forestage means "the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)".

How many syllables are in forestage?

forestage has 3 syllables and divides as fo-re-stage under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for forestage?

Close synonyms include proscenium, apron. 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 forestage a common word?

forestage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.