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 The nocturnal characters spend languorous nights in bars, opera houses, brothels. Judy Berman, TIME, 1 July 2024 Many of these sites—such as Rome’s Trevi Fountain, Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio and Milan’s La Scala opera house—have been located in Italy. Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024 The 19th-century silver-mining boomtown was filled with more than 100 saloons, a bowling alley, and even an opera house. Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2024 Figes provides a vast store of information on European cultural institutions—theaters, opera houses, museums, and international exhibitions—as well as their social and economic underpinnings. Jerrold Seigel, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020 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 7 Jul. 2024.

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