offstage

See also: off-stage

English

Alternative forms

• off-stage

Etymology

From off +‎ stage.

Adjective

offstage (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to that part of a stage not visible to the audience.
2. Of or relating to the private life of a celebrity.

Translations

of that part of a stage not visible to the audience

Bulgarian: задкулисен (bg) (zadkulisen) Japanese: 舞台袖 (butai sode), ステージ袖 (sutēji sode) Polish: zakulisowy (pl) Spanish: en off, fuera de estrado, fuera de la tarima Ukrainian: закулі́сний (zakulísnyj), залаштунко́вий (zalaštunkóvyj)

Adverb

offstage (not comparable)

1. Taking place offstage (as above).

Antonyms

• onstage

Translations

taking place offstage

Bulgarian: задкулисно (bg) (zadkulisno) Polish: zakulisowo (pl) Spanish: en off, fuera de tarima, fuera del estrado

Verb

offstage (third-person singular simple present offstages, present participle offstaging, simple past and past participle offstaged)

1. (transitive) To relegate (part of a play) to the offstage area, rather than showing it to the audience.
   • 2009, Rodney Edgecombe, Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin Morgan, page 94:

     A boy has just murdered another one year older than himself, but Morgan offstages the event as a nuntius would the horrors of Greek tragedy.