Usually means: Greatest work of someone's career.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. magnum opus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. magnum opus: Merriam-Webster
  3. magnum opus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. magnum opus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. magnum opus: Collins English Dictionary
  6. magnum opus: Vocabulary.com
  7. magnum opus: Wordnik
  8. magnum opus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. magnum opus: Wiktionary
  10. magnum opus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. magnum opus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. magnum opus: Dictionary.com
  13. Magnum Opus (Yngwie Malmsteen album), Magnum Opus, Magnum opus (alchemy), Magnum opus (disambiguation), Magnum opus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. magnum opus: Rhymezone
  15. Magnum Opus: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. magnum opus: FreeDictionary.org
  17. magnum opus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. magnum opus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. magnum opus: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. magnum opus: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. magnum opus: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Magnum Opus: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (magnum opus)

noun:  A great or important work of literature, music or art, a masterpiece.
noun:  The best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an author or artist, representing their major life effort.
noun:  (alchemy) The process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher's stone.

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