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understage

understage adjective: underneath the stage.

Adjective

understage (not comparable)

  1. underneath the stage

Noun

understage (plural understages)

  1. The area beneath a stage.
    • When deep pits, required in the understage for the machinery and traps, cannot be drained on account of insufficient depth of the street sewer1900, William Paul Gerhard, Theatres: Their Safety from Fire and Panic, Their Comfort and Healthfulness, page 97
    • The understage being only 9 feet (5 braccia) high, the mountain had to rise in telescoping stages1996, James M. Saslow, The Medici wedding of 1589: Florentine festival as Theatrum Mundi, page 86

Verb

understage (third-person singular simple present understages, present participle understaging, simple past and past participle understaged)

  1. To underestimate the severity of a patient's illness

understage meaning in Bengali

understage in Bengali

মঞ্চের নিচে, মঞ্চের নিচের এলাকা

Forms of understage

Noun
pluralunderstages
Verb
third-person singular presentunderstages
present participleunderstaging
past participleunderstaged
pastunderstaged

Origin of understage

From under- + stage.

Questions about understage

What does understage mean?
Understage means underneath the stage.
What is understage in Bengali?
Understage in Bengali is মঞ্চের নিচে, মঞ্চের নিচের এলাকা. See Understage meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is understage?
Understage can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

Words near understage in the dictionary

  1. understaff
  2. understaffed
  3. understaffing
  4. understaffings
  5. understaffs
  6. understage
  7. understaged
  8. understages
  9. understaging
  10. understain
  11. understained

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Adapted from Wiktionary: understage (page history and authors); understage (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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