opera

1. 1.

   a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes

   Broaderclassical music

   Narrowerrock operacomic operagrand operamusical drama

   Partssupertitleactaria
2. 2.

   a commercial browser

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3. 3.

   a building where musical dramas are performed

   Synonymsopera house

   Broadertheater

Other forms of opera

plural

operas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about opera

What does opera mean?

opera means "a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in opera?

opera has 2 syllables: ope-ra. The stress falls on "ope". In IPA it is /ˈɑpɹə/.

What is another word for opera?

Close synonyms include opera house. 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 opera a common word?

opera is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.