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say it: uhp-STAYJ
upstage is a verb, adjective, noun and adverb meaning "treat snobbishly, put in one's place". It is pronounced /əpˈsteɪdʒ/ — uhp-STAYJ. It carries 7 recorded senses.
of the back half of a stage
“she crossed to the upstage chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the audience”
at or toward the rear of the stage
“the dancers were directed to move upstage”
dramaturgy
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for upstage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.