Downstage

Definition: Downstage

Downstage

Adjective

1. Of the front half of a stage.

Adverb

1. (theater) at or toward the front of the stage; "the actors moved further and further downstage".

Domain	Definition
Fine Arts	The area nearest the footlights and curtain. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Antonym: upstage (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Downstage

Specialty definitions using "downstage": go down/to. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Upstage Downstage (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Downstage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "Downstage" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.83%	23	72,767
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.17%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	24	N/A

Language		Translations for "downstage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		който се намира на авансцената, на авансцената, близо до камерата, интимен (familiar, fireside, informal, inner, inofficial, intimate, keyhole, near, pally, personal, private, privy, tete a tete, thick). (various references)

French		face, AVANT-scène. (various references)

Hungarian		színpadi előtérhez tartozó, színpadi előtér, előtérhez tartozó, előtérben (in limelight, in the forefront, to the fore), elől (to abscond from sg, to shirk). (various references)

Manx		gys oaie yn ardane. (various references)

Pig Latin		ownstageday

Portuguese		relativo � amizade, camarada (associate, bud, buddy, chimney-pot hat, cobber, companion, compeer, comrade, fellow, friendly, mate, nice, pal, pally, playmate, stable companion, topper), amigo (boyfriend, brother, bud, chap, chum, fond, friend, friendly, kind, kindly, matey, maty, nice, pal, pally, well-wisher). (various references)

Russian		относящийся к авансцене, на авансцене, дружеский (amicable, friendly, homelike, pally, sociable). (various references)

Spanish		amistoso (amiable, amicable, comradely, cosy, cozy, friendly, neighborly, neighbourly, pally, sociable), amistosamente (amicably, friendly). (various references)

Ukrainian		що належить до авансцени, на авансцену, на авансцені, дружній (amiable, amicable, friendly, hearty, homelike, officious). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "downstage": downstages. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Downstage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: downsta. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-n-o-s-t-w"
	-2 letters: donates, dotages, gowaned, onstage, stanged, stowage, tangoed, towages, twanged, wagoned.
	-3 letters: agents, agones, anodes, atoned, atones, dagoes, dewans, donate, dongas, dosage, dotage, endows, gasted, genoas, gnawed, godets, gonads, gowans, gowned, seadog, snawed, snowed, staged, staned, stodge, stoned, stowed, swaged, tanged, tangos, tawsed, togaed, tongas, tonged, towage, twangs, wadset, wagons, wanted, wasted, weason.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-n-o-s-t-w"
	+1 letter: downstages.
	+3 letters: groundwaters.
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