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offstage

offstage adjective: of or relating to that part of a stage not visible to the audience.

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.

Adverb

offstage (not comparable)

  1. Taking place offstage (as above).

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.
    • 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.2009, Rodney Edgecombe, Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin Morgan, page 94

offstage meaning in Urdu

offstage in Urdu

نجی, ذاتی

Antonyms of offstage

Forms of offstage

Adjective
alternative formoff-stage
Verb
third-person singular presentoffstages
present participleoffstaging
past participleoffstaged
pastoffstaged

Origin of offstage

From off + stage.

Questions about offstage

What does offstage mean?
Offstage means of or relating to that part of a stage not visible to the audience.
What is offstage in Urdu?
Offstage in Urdu is نجی, ذاتی. See Offstage meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is offstage?
Offstage can be an adjective, an adverb or a verb.

Words near offstage in the dictionary

  1. offsplitting
  2. offspring
  3. offspringing
  4. offspringless
  5. offsprings
  6. offstage
  7. offstaged
  8. offstages
  9. offstaging
  10. offstand
  11. offstanding

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: offstage (page history and authors); offstage (Urdu 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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