stage direction

1. 1.

   an instruction written as part of the script of a play

   Broaderdirection

   Part ofplay

Questions about stage direction

What does stage direction mean?

stage direction means "an instruction written as part of the script of a play".

Is stage direction a common word?

stage direction 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.