operas
- 1Plural of opera.
The festival staged five operas over a single summer season.
Mozart's operas remain among the most frequently performed works in the repertoire.
Note
A plural that belongs to the countable uses of opera: separate works, their scores, the houses that stage them, the companies that perform them. When opera means the art form itself (a love of opera, a career in opera), it stays singular and takes no plural. The looser sense of any showy, melodramatic production pluralizes too, so a run of overwrought films can be dismissed as operas.
operas is a form of opera
opera, noun: A dramatic work in which the story is told mainly through singing with instrumental music, sometimes including dance; also, the written score of such a work. Full entry
- Spelling
- opera → operas: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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