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onstage

adjectiveadverbattested in dialogue

On the part of a stage that is visible to the audience.

adjective

  1. 1

    On the part of a stage that is visible to the audience.

Etymology

From on + stage.

adverb

  1. 1

    Taking place on the part of a stage that is visible to the audience.

    The first is a special—a single lighting instrument that lights a particular spot on the stage. Specials generally have no color, or a more saturated color, allowing them to stand out through other lighting onstage.

    Mr. Kirk sat onstage with his wife Friday night and drove home the weekend’s message.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).