offstage

1. 1.

   a stage area out of sight of the audience

   Synonymswingbackstage

   Broaderstage

Other forms of offstage

plural

offstages·

comparative

offstager·

superlative

offstagest·

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 offstage

What does offstage mean?

offstage means "situated or taking place in the area of a stage not visible to the audience". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in offstage?

offstage has 2 syllables: off-stage. The stress falls on "off". In IPA it is /ˈɔfˈsteɪdʒ/.

What is another word for offstage?

Close synonyms include backstage, wing, backstage. 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.

What is the opposite of offstage?

The recorded antonyms are onstage, onstage.

Is offstage a common word?

offstage 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.

What rhymes with offstage?

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