proscenium

Other forms of proscenium

plural

proscenia

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 proscenium

What does proscenium mean?

proscenium means "the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in proscenium?

proscenium has 4 syllables: pro-sce-ni-um. The stress falls on "sce".

What is another word for proscenium?

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

proscenium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.