Usually means: Theatrical performance combining music, singing.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word opera:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. opera, the opera: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. opera, opera: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. opera, opera: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. opera: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Opera, opera: Vocabulary.com
  6. Opera, opera: Wordnik
  7. opera: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Opera, opera: Wiktionary
  9. opera: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. opera: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. opera: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. opera: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. opera: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Opera (Andrea Bocelli album), Opera (Budapest Metro), Opera (Internet suite), Opera (Music), Opera (Super Junior song), Opera (Tosca album), Opera (Web browser), Opera (band), Opera (browser), Opera (disambiguation), Opera (fabrica ecclesiae), Opera (film), Opera (magazine), Opera (song), Opera (web browser), Opera, The Opera (Seinfeld), The Opera: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Opera: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. opera: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. opera: Rhymezone
  18. opera, opera, opera (de), opera (lirica), pera: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. opera: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Opera: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. opera: Free Dictionary
  22. opera: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. opera: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. opera: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. opera: Dictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Opera (Music), The Opera, opera: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Opera: Netlingo
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Opera (Music), The Opera, opera: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. OPERA, Opera (Music), The Opera: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. OPERA: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. opera: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Opera: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See opus as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.
noun:  (music) The score for such a work.
noun:  A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house.
noun:  A company dedicated to performing such works.
noun:  (by extension) Any showy, melodramatic or unrealistic production resembling an opera.

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