All 10 Uses of
opera
in
Beastly
- She went to an opera—three and a half hours.†
Part 1 (definition 1)
- I finished the hunchback book (everyone died), so I read The Phantom of the Opera.†
Part 3 (definition 1)
- He was a murderer who terrorized the opera house for years before kidnapping a young singer and trying to force her to be the love he was denied.
Part 3 (definition 1) *opera = (used for) classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
- I wished I had an opera house.†
Part 3 (definition 1)
- I read The Hunchback, Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein.†
Part 3 (definition 1)
- We're doing a unit on literary monsters in English class—Phantom of the Opera, Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Dracula.†
Part 3 (definition 1)
- What if I looked like the Phantom of the Opera or something?†
Part 3 (definition 1)
- God, I sounded like the Phantom of the Opera.†
Part 4 (definition 1)
- If she pitied me, she might think that I was some pathetic creature who was going to try to drag her off and force her to be mine, like the Phantom of the Opera.†
Part 4 (definition 1)
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- So basically, she got a salary and free use of our apartment, and all she had to do was laundry and vacuuming and watch soap operas and fan her butt all day.†
Part 1 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (opera) a musical play with orchestra in which most dialogue is sung -- (typically associated with classical music and often in a language foreign to the audience)
or:
the art form (or describing something as related to it) that consists of musical plays with orchestra in which most dialogue is sung
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)