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downstage

downstage adverb: toward or at the front of a theatrical stage.

Adverb

downstage (comparative more downstage, superlative most downstage)

  1. Toward or at the front of a theatrical stage.
  2. Towards a motion-picture or television camera.

Adjective

downstage (comparative more downstage, superlative most downstage)

  1. At the front of a stage.

Noun

downstage (uncountable)

  1. The part of a stage that is closest to the audience or camera.

Verb

downstage (third-person singular simple present downstages, present participle downstaging, simple past and past participle downstaged)

  1. (transitive) To restage downward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a lower stage than that found at last assessment (compare upstage).

downstage meaning in Bengali

downstage in Bengali

নাট্যমঞ্চের সামনের দিকে, সামনে, চলচ্চিত্র, টেলিভিশন ক্যামেরার দিকে, মঞ্চের সামনে অবস্থিত, নিচের দিকে পুনঃনির্ধারণ করা

Forms of downstage

Adverb
comparativemore downstage
superlativemost downstage
Adjective
comparativemore downstage
superlativemost downstage
Verb
third-person singular presentdownstages
present participledownstaging
past participledownstaged
pastdownstaged

Origin of downstage

From down- + stage.

Words that rhyme with downstage

27 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about downstage

What does downstage mean?
Downstage means toward or at the front of a theatrical stage.
What is downstage in Bengali?
Downstage in Bengali is নাট্যমঞ্চের সামনের দিকে, সামনে, চলচ্চিত্র. See Downstage meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is downstage?
Downstage can be an adverb, an adjective, a noun or a verb.

Words near downstage in the dictionary

  1. downspun
  2. downstab
  3. downstabs
  4. downstack
  5. downstacks
  6. downstage
  7. downstaged
  8. downstages
  9. downstaging
  10. downstagings
  11. downstair

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Adapted from Wiktionary: downstage (page history and authors); downstage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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