onstage
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˈɑnˌsteɪdʒ/
:
sobre el escenario
- I'm sorry, boys, but we're gonna need this man onstage.
- come onstage
- get onstage
- appear onstage
Examples
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I wanted to make that same twelve-year-old feel safe onstage.
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Whatever you need to make an action sequence work onstage.
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The mayor is standing onstage behind me.
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Take me back to that night onstage with Murray Franklin.
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Clay quickly goes through the crowd, steps up onstage, and takes the microphone.
Fiction book (1990) -
Then you're gonna go onstage and do your proposal.
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OK, guys, you must be ready to walk onstage in two minutes, or you're not performing, OK?
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A girl in a sparkling pink sari was onstage, happy to be dancing about the love of nature.
Fiction book (1994) -
Antigone and Ismene come onstage, mourning the loss of their father and desiring death themselves.
Academic text (1994) -
The actor felt a rush of excitement as he stepped onstage to perform for the crowd.
Synonyms
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2.9
Performing in front of an audience in a play or concert
Antonyms
How Visible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word onstage comes from the parts on, meaning 'on', and stage, the area where actors perform. So it literally means 'on the stage' and refers to being in the part of a show that the audience can see.