I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.
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Backstage
//bækˈsteɪd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "backstage" (54 found)
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Related words (27)
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55 translations across 21 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- كَوَالِيس adj (behind a stage)
Bulgarian
2 entries- задкулисен adj (behind a stage)
- потаен adj (secret)
Catalan
1 entries- rereescena noun (area behind the stage)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 後臺 /后台 noun (area behind the stage)
Czech
3 entries- zákulisní adj (behind a stage)
- zákulisní adj (secret)
- zákulisí noun (area behind the stage)
Dutch
1 entries- achterplan noun (area behind the stage)
Esperanto
1 entries- kuliso adj (behind a stage)
Finnish
4 entries- kulissien takainen adj (behind a stage)
- kulissien takainen adj (secret)
- kulisseihin adv (towards the area behind the stage)
- kulisseissa adv (out of view of the public)
French
3 entries- coulisses adj (behind a stage)
- coulisses adj (secret)
- coulisses noun (area behind the stage)
German
3 entries- backstage adj (behind a stage)
- hinter den Kulissen adj (secret)
- Backstage noun (area behind the stage)
Icelandic
4 entries- baksviðs adj (behind a stage)
- baktjalda adj (behind a stage)
- leynilegur adj (secret)
- baksvið noun (area behind the stage)
Italian
2 entries- quinta noun (area behind the stage)
- quinte noun (area behind the stage)
Latin
1 entries- postscaenium noun (area behind the stage)
Macedonian
2 entries- затку́лисен adj (secret)
- по́таен adj (secret)
Māori
1 entries- tuaroa noun (area behind the stage)
Polish
2 entries- arierscena noun (area behind the stage)
- zascenie noun (area behind the stage)
Portuguese
4 entries- bastidores adj (behind a stage)
- bastidores noun (area behind the stage)
- coxia noun (area behind the stage)
- coxias noun (area behind the stage)
Russian
4 entries- закули́сный adj (behind a stage)
- закули́сный adj (secret)
- за кули́сы adv (towards the area behind the stage)
- закули́сно adv (out of view of the public)
Turkish
3 entries- kulis noun (area behind the stage)
- perde arkası noun (area behind the stage)
- sahne arkası noun (area behind the stage)
Ukrainian
4 entries- закулі́сний adj (behind a stage)
- закулі́сний adj (secret)
- залаштунко́вий adj (behind a stage)
- залаштунко́вий adj (secret)
Welsh
2 entries- yng nghefn y llwyfan adj (behind a stage)
- cefn llwyfan noun (area behind the stage)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
He went backstage after the show.
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Tom went backstage to see if he could meet some of the band members.
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I met Tom backstage.
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