noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grand opera
long-running show/musical/soap opera etc
magnum opus
opera house
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the Sydney Opera House
pop/opera/folk etc singer
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her favourite pop singer
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a famous Italian opera singer
soap opera
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
golf/opera etc nut
opera/court/movie etc house
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A belligerent crowd of some fifty thousand gathered around the court house .
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Not only was the curtain rung down but the opera house was dismantled.
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She prefers her recordings made live in the opera house and regards herself totally as a woman of the theatre.
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The Court House , where the business was conducted, can still be seen today.
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Then he opened a movie house and said he was definitely done with pro basketball.
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There are two public houses , a butcher's shop, a chapel, and a court house.
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They grew wealthy overnight and had a beautiful little opera house built in the midst of their shacks on the steep slope.
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They polished up the opera house , and every summer stars from the Metropolitan came out and performed.
wine/film/opera etc buff
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Alas, even the most well-meaning opera buffs have an unfortunate habit of making their favorite indoor sport sound impossibly complicated.
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For the real film buff , however, the place to be has to be BlackStar.
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Inside, bartenders wearing leather harnesses serve beer in cans to an assortment of brutes, heathens, and opera buffs .
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It all started when wine buff Liz entered another competition in the Express.
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Rubbish, I hear all you wine buffs out there say.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Beethoven's Sonata in E Major, Opus 109
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Woody Allen's latest opus is a musical comedy, shot on location in Venice.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And instead of heading off into uncharted waters, Shyamalan has positively invited comparisons with his previous opus .
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But a knowledge of past Wilson works is not necessary for grasping this opus .
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But if Mr Winchester's iconography is sometimes suspect, his opus is almost unfailingly entertaining.
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Eventually, there is a big orchestral opus .
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For a while, it seemed as if he was more interested in shooting his Shakespeare opus than in finishing it.
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It is entirely probable that Bach himself envisaged his scientific and musically profound opus as a solo keyboard work.
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Meanwhile the audience contemplates his grand opus , wondering what comes next.
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The alchemists observed a stage in the opus which they called variously the leprosy of the metals or the blessed greenness.