Proscenium

/pɹəʊˈsiː.ni.əm/ · noun

Meaning

(in a modern theater) The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra..

Definitions by Sense

1. (in a modern theater) The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.
2. (in an ancient theater) The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.
3. (in an ancient theater) The row of columns at the front of the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.
4. A proscenium arch.

Example Sentences

It looks like a film, a meticulous, detailed, visually balanced wide-screen Wes Anderson one. There’s no proscenium, no stage, no wings, no audience.

The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή).

Screamers trumpeted from the roof of the supermarket, white storks rattled their bills as their surveyed the town from the proscenium of the filling-station.

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Word Forms

• prosceniums
• proscenia
• proscænium

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