opera
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈɑːpərə/
:
teatro de la ópera
- I hear you have come to take over the Opera.
- an opera house
Hitler speaks elegantly of his visit to the Vienna Opera when he was a student.
- Hitler speaks elegantly of his visit to the Vienna Opera when he was a student.
- And he says, do you know the way to the Opera House?
- But in her mind, she said, Ronk and I was dancing in Budapest Opera House.
- So we're at the Opera House and sadly this may be the last stop on our rosy crawl time wise.
- What what year was it where the the the finale was at the Opera House?
- We are seeing people mass around the Sydney Opera House screaming gas the Jews, gas the Jews.
Examples
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It's playing at the Manhattan opera house.
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And there's a concert, a piano concert, next week at the old opera house.
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Here we are, guys, the Paris Opera House.
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You can always tell when someone goes to the opera for the first time.
Fiction book (1990) -
I want the Opera House to remain an atmosphere of the past, without which our time would have no beauty.
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Let me introduce you to Sydney Opera House.
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The director of the metropolitan opera called this morning.
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We actually nabbed two of them outside Covent Garden Opera House, but all of the others got away.
Fiction book (1990) -
We attended a Peking Opera in Beijing as a culminating activity one evening.
Academic text (1992) -
We saw a stunning performance at the opera last night.
Synonyms
553
1.0
A building where people go to see plays or movies
16
3.0
A building where people watch operas and musical shows
Compounds
- Literature
3
6.3
Science fiction stories with big adventures and drama set in outer space between fighting empires
- Archaic
A large loose cloak with a hood that you wear over evening clothes to formal events
How Stylized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Opera can also mean the building where these musical works are performed because of the phrase 'opera house'; people went to the 'opera house' to hear the musical 'works', and the place itself became known simply as 'the opera'.