STAGEHAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stagehand mean? 

• STAGEHAND (noun)
  The noun STAGEHAND has 1 sense:

1. an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production

  Familiarity information: STAGEHAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAGEHAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

stage technician; stagehand

Hypernyms ("stagehand" is a kind of...):

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stagehand"):

property man; property master; propman (member of the stage crew in charge of properties)

sceneshifter; shifter (a stagehand responsible for moving scenery)

Holonyms ("stagehand" is a member of...):

stage crew (crew of workers who move scenery or handle properties in a theatrical production)