opera house

noun

: a theater devoted principally to the performance of operas
broadly : theater

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With Budapest’s ornate opera house just across the street, do a post-dinner drink on the terrace. Nicole Trilivas, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024 Get into a car, and the stereo lobs you into the center of an opera house or a dance club. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024 Some Chinese cities can fill the halls of 15 opera houses in one evening. Kishore Mahbubani, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2016 Charles and Queen Camilla arrived Friday evening local time in Sydney, where a tribute on the sails of the city’s iconic opera house displayed a four-minute montage of images from previous royal visits. Hannah Peart, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for opera house 

Word History

First Known Use

1720, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of opera house was in 1720

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“Opera house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/opera%20house. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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