upstage
on or toward the back of the stage.
of, relating to, or located at the back of the stage.
haughtily aloof; supercilious.
to overshadow (another performer) by moving upstage and forcing the performer to turn away from the audience.
to outdo professionally, socially, etc.
to behave snobbishly toward.
Origin of upstage
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How to use upstage in a sentence
IBM’s announcement was also upstaged just a day later when startup QuEra came out of stealth and announced it had built a 256-qubit device.
IBM’s 127-Qubit Eagle Is the Biggest Quantum Computer Yet | Edd Gent | November 22, 2021 | Singularity HubMirella Weingarten’s dramatic set design situates Khan on a parched, dusty hillside, rising upstage and draped ominously in lengths of rope.
Akram Khan delivers a powerful indictment of war in ‘Xenos’ at the Kennedy Center | Sarah Kaufman | November 19, 2021 | Washington PostThe medium is ideal for such intensely hued drawings as “Feel the Heat,” which sets off a red-orange field with a thin ribbon of blue sky, and “Line of Cherries,” in which pink and purple blossoms upstage a band of green grass.
In the galleries: Artists pair up to create a third identity, or when 1+1 equals one. | Mark Jenkins | November 19, 2021 | Washington PostThe rover will continue its journey around Jezero and is arguably being upstaged by its aerial buddy Ingenuity—a small helicopter that has now made 12 flights on Mars.
NASA’s Perseverance rover finally scooped up a piece of Mars | Neel V. Patel | September 2, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThat visit came before his brother did the same, leading a Jordanian insider to tell Reuters Hamzah had upstaged the king.
So, Streep rewrote much of her dialogue, which led to tension with her co-star, Hoffman, who felt she was trying to upstage him.
Co-Stars Who Hated Each Other: Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in 'The Notebook' and More | Marlow Stern | July 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDaily Pic (Venice Biennale Edition): Yuri Ancarani shows that medical magic can upstage the aesthetic kind.
It takes great talent to upstage a man accepting his party's presidential nomination.
In terms of attire, one did not upstage the other by looking more sophisticated or fashionable—or elitist, God forbid.
upstage, burned a driftwood fire in a low hearth of rough bricks; Judge Tiffany sat there, in a spindle-backed chair, reading.
The Readjustment | Will IrwinFew are native-born New Yorkers, and scarcely any of them go around with their noses in the air in an "upstage Eastern manner."
If You Don't Write Fiction | Charles Phelps CushingSingle rose-coloured corduroy curtain for archway up R. hung on upstage side of arch.
Mr. Pim Passes By | Alan Alexander MilneOne perceived, dimly, a high sombre draping, very far upstage.
Nights in London | Thomas BurkeA similar door, opening into the bedroom of the shack, upstage right.
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British Dictionary definitions for upstage
/ (ˈʌpˈsteɪdʒ) /
on, at, or to the rear of the stage
of or relating to the back half of the stage
informal haughty; supercilious; aloof
to move upstage of (another actor), thus forcing him to turn away from the audience
informal to draw attention to oneself from (someone else); steal the show from (someone)
informal to treat haughtily
the back half of the stage
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