Definition of STAGEHAND

stagehand

Plural: stagehands

Noun

  • an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production
  • A person who works behind the scenes at a theatre or in other theatrical media.

Examples

  • The actors get the glory, the spotlight and the name up in lights while it is the stagehands who point the spotlight, hang the name and change the light bulbs.

Origin / Etymology

From stage + hand (“manual worker”).

Synonyms

stage technician

Scrabble Score: 14

stagehand: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
stagehand: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stagehand: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

stagehand: valid Words With Friends Word