light opera

1. 1.

   a short amusing opera

   Synonymsoperetta

   Broadercomic opera

Questions about light opera

What does light opera mean?

light opera means "a short amusing opera".

What is another word for light opera?

Close synonyms include operetta. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is light opera a common word?

light opera is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.