offstage

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offstage

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From off + stage.

adjective off-stage

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

adverb off-stage

  1. not comparable Taking place offstage (as above).

Opposite: onstage

verb offstages · offstaging · offstaged · off-stage

  1. transitive To relegate (part of a play) to the offstage area, rather than showing it to the audience. 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.

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adverb

Opposite: onstage

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adj of that part of a stage not visible to the audience

Españolen off, fuera de estrado, fuera de la tarima
日本語舞台袖 butai sode, ステージ袖 sutēji sode

adv taking place offstage

Españolen off, fuera de tarima, fuera del estrado

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@misc{offstage_2026,
  title = {offstage},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/offstage},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}