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CENTER STAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does center stage mean?
• CENTER STAGE (noun)
The noun CENTER STAGE has 2 senses:
1. a position of prominence or importance
2. the central area on a theater stage
Familiarity information: CENTER STAGE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A position of prominence or importance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
center stage; centre stage
Hypernyms ("center stage" is a kind of...):
high status (a position of superior status)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The central area on a theater stage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
center stage; centre stage
Hypernyms ("center stage" is a kind of...):
center; centre; eye; heart; middle (an area that is approximately central within some larger region)
Context examples
Mars will remain in Libra for nearly three weeks, until November 18, and then move into Scorpio, putting you at center stage.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
You’ll welcome all the changes, too—they will put you center stage.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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