onstage

adverb or adjective

on·​stage ˈȯn-ˈstāj 

ˈän-, 

-ˌstāj

: on or onto a stage : on a part of the stage visible to the audience

Examples of onstage in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Nothing brings you closer than being onstage every night together. — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2026

At a press conference at the University of Tokyo, Blanchett was joined onstage by two students of the university as well as Kaori Hayashi, executive vice president and professor at the university, and writer and poet Mieko Kawakami. — Kelly Wetherille, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026

The room was less than half full, with roughly three hundred people; Talarico came onstage around an hour after the event’s start time. — Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026

In cybersecurity, that’s reality right now, Evan Peña, cofounder and chief offensive security officer at startup Armadin, told me onstage Wednesday at Fortune, Lightspeed, and AWS’s Cyber 60 event. — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for onstage

• assuage
• backstage
• bocage
• downstage
• engage
• enrage
• leafage
• messuage
• offstage
• outrage
• pelage
• prophage

Kids Definition

onstage

adverb or adjective

on·​stage ˈȯn-ˈstāj 

ˈän-

: on or onto a stage : on a part of the stage visible to the audience