opera
English
/ˈɒp.əɹ.ə/, /ˈɑ.pəɹ.ə/
noun
Definitions
- (music) A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.
- (music) The score for such a work.
- A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house.
- A company dedicated to performing such works.
- (by extension) Any showy, melodramatic or unrealistic production resembling an opera.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian opera (work).
Origin
Italian (Fiorentino)
opera
Gloss
work
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
働
Emoji
✂️ 🏗️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Beijing English
- Beijing opera English
- antiopera English
- goer English
- going English
- nonopera English
- nonoperatic English
- opera-goer English
- operagoer English
- operagoing English
- operalike English
- operaphile English
- operaphobe English
- operatic English
- operatically English
- semioperatic English
- song English
- unoperatic English
- ooppera Finnish
- opera Latin
- opera Hungarian
- capodopera Italian
- manodopera Italian
- opera Italian
- operaismo Italian
- operaistico Italian
- operetta Italian
- operista Italian
- operistico Italian
- opera Dutch, Flemish
- opéra French
- о́пера Russian
- опера Russian
- ópera Spanish, Castilian
- opera Norwegian Bokmål
- ópera Portuguese
- opera Polish
- opera Norwegian Nynorsk
- opera Serbo-Croatian
- ópera Galician
- operă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- โอเปร่า Thai
- όπερα Greek (modern)
- опера Bulgarian
- အော်ပရာ Burmese
- operë Albanian
- אָפּערע Yiddish
- אופרה Hebrew (modern)
- опера Ukrainian
- опера Belarusian