downstage
About 0.16 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb Toward or at the front of a theatrical stage.
- adverb Towards a motion-picture or television camera.
- adjective At the front of a stage.
- noun The part of a stage that is closest to the audience or camera.
- verb To restage downward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a lower stage than that found at last assessment (compare upstage).
Similar words
backstage upstage onstage stage left floorward behind downstreet frontwards offstage rearward
Often followed by
right left and to center of area in centre
Word family
downstages
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