opening night

1. 1.

   the first performance (as of a theatrical production)

   “the opening received good critical reviews”

   Synonymsopeningcurtain raising

   Broaderstart

Questions about opening night

What does opening night mean?

opening night means "the first performance (as of a theatrical production)".

What is another word for opening night?

Close synonyms include opening, curtain raising. 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 opening night a common word?

opening night 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.