backstage

From back +‎ stage.

• IPA^(key): /bækˈsteɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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  Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

backstage (not comparable)

1. Relating to, or situated in the area behind a stage.
2. Secret, concealed from the public.

• backstage Johnny
• backstage pass
• backstager

backstage (comparative more backstage, superlative most backstage)

1. Towards the area behind the stage.
2. Out of view of the public.
   • 1966, “Backstage”, performed by Gene Pitney:

     Backstage I'm lonely, backstage I cry / You've gone away and each night I seem to die a little

backstage (plural backstages)

1. The area behind a stage out of view of the audience where performers wait to give their show; especially that of the dressing rooms.
2. The private portion of the space used by a business or enterprise.
   • 2013, Raymond Fisk, Stephen Grove, Joby John, Services Marketing Interactive Approach, →ISBN, page 73:

     Another broad issue regarding the physical setting involves decisions about the setting's frontstage and backstage.

• back gates, backgates

< English backstage

• IPA^(key): /ˈbækstei̯dʒ/, [ˈbæks̠te̞i̯dʒ]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑkstɑɡe/, [ˈbɑ̝ks̠tɑ̝ɡe̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbækstɑɡe/, [ˈbæks̠tɑ̝ɡe̞]
• Rhymes: -æksteidʒ

backstage (slang)

1. backstage (area behind a stage out of view of the audience where performers wait to give their show)

   Synonyms: takahuone, bäkkäri

Borrowed from English backstage.

• IPA^(key): /bɛksˈtejd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ejdʒ

backstage m (invariable)

1. backstage

   Synonym: retroscena

Unadapted borrowing from English backstage.

• IPA^(key): /baɡsˈteit͡ʃ/ [baɣ̞sˈt̪ei̯t͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -eitʃ

backstage m (plural backstages)

1. backstage

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “backstage”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024