Upstage

Definition: Upstage

Upstage

Adjective

1. Of the back half of a stage; "she crossed to the upstage chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the audience".

Adverb

1. (theater) at or toward the rear of the stage; "the dancers were directed to move upstage".

Verb

1. Treat snobbishly, put in one's place.

2. Move (another actor) upstage, forcing him to turn away from the audience.

3. Steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else.

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

Fine Arts

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Crosswords: Upstage

Upstage (1926)

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Books

• Upstage Downstage (reference)

• Upstage; the American theatre in performance (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Albanian

pjesë prapa skenës, i prapaskenës. (various references)

Arabic 

‏متكبر (arrogant, conceited, haughty, insolent, lofty, lordly, proud, snooty, supercilious, swank, swelling), ‏نحو مؤخرة المسرح. (various references)

Bulgarian 

снобски (pseudo, ritzy, snobbish, snooty, uppish), самомнителен (bumptious, cocky, conceited, overweening, self sufficient, swanky, swashbuckling, uppish, uppity, vain), отдалечен от обектива, засенчвам (adumbrate, blanket, dim, efface, obscure, outshine, out-top, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, shade, show up). (various references)

Chinese 

抢戏. (various references)

Czech

zastínit koho, domýšlivý (arrogant, assuming, conceited, haughty, high and mighty, perky, pretentious, small beer, smug, snotty, uppish, vain). (various references)

French

vers le fond de la scène, lointain, crâneur (puffed up). (various references)

German

Emporkömmling (parvenu, social climber, upstart, upstart publisher). (various references)

Greek 

προσ τα οπίσω τησ σκηνήσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"טות תשומת לב, בירכתי �"בימ�". (various references)

Hungarian

színpad mélye (up-stage), színpad hátterében, fölényes (high handed, magisterial, sublime, supercilious, superior, up-stage). (various references)

Italian

verso il fondo, superare (be over, cap, clear, come through, exceed, excel, get over, get through, go over, negotiate, outclass, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outnumber, outrange, outstrip, overcome, overrun, overtake, pass, ride out, round, surmount, surpass, top), arrivista (careerist, climber, go getter, pusher, pushing, social climber), altezzoso (arrogant, cavalier, haughty, high, snooty, supercilious). (various references)

Pig Latin

ageupstay.(various references)

Portuguese

rude (abrupt, backwoods, barbaric, boisterous, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, coarse, crude, discourteous, displeasing, disrespectful, gothic, gruff, harsh, homespun, husky, incondite, knockabout, larrikin, low-lived, point-blank, raw, rough, rude, rugged, rumbustious, rustic, snippy, tart, tough, unaffable, uncivil, uncouth, uneducated, ungracious, unkind, unnurtured, unpolished, untaught), presunçoso (bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, self-confident, self-opinionated, self-sufficient, smug, snippy, uppish, vainglorious), maldisposto (chippy, fretful, grumpy, queasy, snappish, snappy, snippy, unwell), fragmentário (clastic, fragmentary, piecemeal, scrappy, snippy), arrogante (arrogant, assuming, big, cockish, flatulent, haughty, huffish, imperious, lord-like, overbearing, perk, proud, proud-spirited, self-assertive, self-confident, self-pride, self-sufficient, snippy, stuck-up, supercilious, uppish). (various references)

Russian 

часть сцены в театре, надменный (aloof, arrogant, bloated aristocrat, bumptious, cavalier, haughty, high and mighty, hoity toity, lofty, proud, proud-spirited, proud-stomached, puff up, puffed up, snippy, stand-offish, supercilious, toplofty, toploty, wrapped in cellophane), затмевать (eclipse, outmatch, outshine, overshadow, shine down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

u pozadini pozornice, zaseniti (blind, dazzle, overshadow, shade), potisnuti (expel, hold at bay, push down, relegate, repress, throw back), ka pozadini pozornice. (various references)

Spanish

eclipsar a uno, eclipsar (eclipse, obscure, outshine, overshadow, surpass), de término, de fondo (background, leading, long distance), altanero (arrogant, bumbling, haughty, high and mighty, lofty, pride, proud, snooty, snuffy, stuck up, supercilious). (various references)

Swedish

vara överlägsen mot, stjäla föreställningen från, mallig (cocksy, cocky, high hat, hoity toity, swanky, uppish, uppity), längst bort på scenen, i bakgrunden, fond-, överlägsen (lofty, overweening, pre eminent, pre-eminent, snuffy, superior, supreme, transcendent). (various references)

Turkish

sahne arkasındaki, sahne arkasında (backstage, behind the scenes), sahne arkasına, sahne arkası (backstage), kibirli davranmak, kibirli (arrogant, as proud as lucifer, assuming, bumptious, cavalier, conceited, consequential, disdainful, haughty, high-flown, hoity toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, pontifical, proud, Sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, stuffy, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity, vain), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, vain), küçük görmek (be disdainful of, belittle, disparage, look down, look down on, look down one's nose at, misprize, patronize, underestimate, underrate), hiçe saymak (challenge, disregard, pay no attention, set at naught, set at nought, slight, snap one's fingers at, spurn, swamp), gölgede bırakmak (cut out, dwarf, eclipse, Excel, outshine, overshade, overshadow, put into the shades, supplant, trump). (various references)

Ukrainian

що належить до задньої частини сцени, відсталий (back, backward, behindhand, benighted, retarded, stick in the mud, straggling, straggly), зарозумілий (arrogant, audacious, contemptuous, dogmatic, dogmatical, domineering, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, lordly, overbearing, overly, overweening, proud, self-conceited, self-explanatory, self-important, snooty, stately, stiff necked, stuck up, topping), задня частина сцени, поводитися зарозуміло. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "upstage": upstaged, upstages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Upstage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pustaka. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: getups, taupes, teguas.

-2 letters: agues, gapes, gates, getas, getup, guest, pages, paste, pates, pause, peags, peats, saute, septa, setup, spate, sputa, stage, stupa, stupe, tapes, taupe, tegua, tepas, upset, usage.

-3 letters: ages, ague, apes, apse, ates, east, eats, etas, gaes, gape, gaps, gasp, gast, gate, gats, gest, geta, gets, gust, guts, page, pase.

+1 letter: stumpage, upstaged, upstages.

+2 letters: pasturage, stumpages, upgathers.

+3 letters: expurgates, pasturages, purgatives, superagent, supergiant.

+4 letters: antiplagues, expurgators, grapefruits, outspeaking, promulgates, pugnacities, purgatories, speculating, superagents, supergiants.

+5 letters: agapanthuses, autographies, expurgations, gamopetalous, magnetopause, outspreading, pasteurising, pasteurizing, postgraduate, preslaughter, steatopygous, stepdaughter, supergravity, superheating.