stage whisper

1. 1.

   a loud whisper that can be overheard; on the stage it is heard by the audience but it supposed to be inaudible to the rest of the cast

   Broaderwhisper

Questions about stage whisper

What does stage whisper mean?

stage whisper means "a loud whisper that can be overheard; on the stage it is heard by the audience but it supposed to be inaudible to the rest of the cast".

Is stage whisper a common word?

stage whisper 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.