opera house

noun

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

Examples of opera house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In the 1920s, arts and culture groups in the city struggled to raise enough money for an opera house, and returning veterans searched for a way to commemorate the war, said Horn, who was first appointed to the board in 1981 by then-San Francisco Mayor Diane Feinstein. Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024 Leave it to Julian Fellowes, the man who made his career mining the aristocracy, to eke a season’s worth of narrative tension out of dueling opera houses. Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2024 So the marathon course, which started at the seven-century-old Hôtel de Ville, near the Notre Dame cathedral, and passed the Palais Garnier opera house, the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower on its way to the finish line at the Esplanade des Invalides, was one of the most challenging in Olympic history. Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024 Recently, a check arrived from the US from the sponsors of an American opera house, who had been in Berlin and had organized their own concert in the Mendelssohn-Remise. Marcel Fürstenau, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for opera house 

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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 2 Oct. 2024.

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