understage
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
underneath the stage
verb
To underestimate the severity of a patient's illness
Example Sentences
- "When deep pits, required in the understage for the machinery and traps, cannot be drained on account of insufficient depth of the street sewer"
- "The understage being only 9 feet (5 braccia) high, the mountain had to rise in telescoping stages"
- "dozens of strapping stage-hands in the understage manipulating warships, cannons dispatching balls of fire, blue smoke."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English stage English understage From under- + stage.