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Stagehand

Definition: Stagehand

Stagehand

Noun

1. An employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Stagehand

Synonym: stage technician (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Stagehand

English words defined with "stagehand": sceneshifter, shifter. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Stagehand

Illustrations:
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stagehand

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

stagehand

7

stagehand union

4

stagehand tool

3

job stagehand

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Stagehand

Language Translations for "stagehand"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

punëtor skene (flyman, grip, scene shifter). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сценичен работник (grip, scene shifter). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

舞台工作人员. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

کارگردان پشت صحنه . (various references)

   

German

  

Bühnenarbeiter (stagehands). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εργάτησ θέατρου. (various references)

   

Italian

  

macchinista di scena (scene shifter), macchinista (engine driver, engineer, engineman, machinist). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

'巾 (black figures, prompter), '奴 (black person, dark-skinned person, prompter, smut), '"坊 (black person, dark-skinned person, prompter, smut), '子 (beauty spot, black figures, dark mole, face mole, mite, prompter), 舞台係り . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

くろ" (black figures, prompter), くろ" (black figures, prompter), くろ"ぼう (black person, dark-skinned person, prompter, smut), くろ"ぼ (black person, dark-skinned person, prompter, smut), ぶたいがかり, "くど (black person, black soil, black terracotta, dark-skinned person, prompter, realm, smut). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

무대 담당자. (various references)

   

Manx

  

guilley ardan. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agehandstay

   

Russian 

  

рабочий сцены (scene shifter). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pozorišni radnik. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

scenarbetare (scene shifter). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Stagehand

Derivations

Words beginning with "stagehand": stagehands. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Stagehand" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Stageman, Straughan. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Stagehand"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "stagehand" (pronounced stā"jha'nd)
4-h a' n dbackhand, beforehand, farmhand, forehand, freehand, longhand, secondhand, shorthand.
3-a' n dampersand, armband, Badland, bandstand, broadband, contraband, cropland, dreamland, fairyland, Fantasyland, farmland, Fatherland, firebrand, flatland, grandstand, grassland, handstand, headband, heartland, hinterland, homeland, inland, lowland, mainland, marshland, Midland, moorland, motherland, newsstand, nightstand, Northland, outland, overland, parkland, quicksand, reprimand, seastrand, Southland, spaceband, sunland, Timberland, undermanned, wasteland, wetland, Wonderland, woodland.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Stagehand

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-h-n-s-t"

-1 letter: thanages.

-2 letters: agendas, agnates, ansated, gnashed, handset, stanged, stengah, thanage.

-3 letters: adages, adnate, agates, agenda, agents, aghast, agnate, ansate, deaths, gashed, gasted, hanged, hanted, hasted, hasten, satang, snathe, staged, staned, tanged, thanes, thegns.

-4 letters: aahed, adage, agate, agent, aghas, ahead, angas, angst, ansae, antae, antas, anted, antes, ashed, ashen, dangs, dates, deans, deash, death.

-5 letters: aahs.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-g-h-n-s-t"
 

+1 letter: stagehands.

 

+2 letters: mastheading.

 

+3 letters: grandfathers.

 

+5 letters: granddaughters.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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